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KENNEDY v. LOUISIANA

No. 07-343.

128 S.Ct. 2641 (2008)

554 U.S. 407

171 L.Ed.2d 525

Patrick KENNEDY, Petitioner, v. LOUISIANA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 25, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey L. Fisher , for petitioner.

Juliet L. Clark , for respondent.

R. Ted Cruz , et al. as amici curiae, by special leave of Court, in support of respondent.

Jelpi P. Picou , G. Ben Cohen , New Orleans, LA, Martin A. Stern , Ravi Sinha , Adams and Reese LLP, New Orleans, LA, Jeffrey L. Fisher , Counsel of Record, Pamela S. Karlan , Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA, for petitioner.

Paul D. Connick, Jr. , District Attorney, Jefferson Parish , State of Louisiana, Juliet L. Clark , Counsel of Record, Assistant District Attorney, Terry M. Boudreaux , Assistant District Attorney, Office of the District Attorney, Gretna, Louisiana, for respondent.

The National Government and, beyond it, the separate States are bound by the proscriptive mandates of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and all persons within those respective jurisdictions may invoke its protection. See Amdts. 8 and 14, § 1; Robinson v. California...

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