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social history of crime
courts, corrections, punishments
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court cases
Preferred term
Date: 1996United States v. Armstrong
Definition(s)
- United States v. Armstrong was a court case involving Christopher Lee Armstrong and other defendants who had been indicted on federal drug charges after selling 124 grams of cocaine base (crack) to police over a period of several months. The defendants alleged that they had been selectively prosecuted because they were Black, in violation of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; United States v. Armstrong]
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Notation
- Date: 1996
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-B7KQ3GZK-1
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