8th Amendment
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The to the Constitution of the United
States prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, as well
as the setting of excessive bail or the imposition of
excessive fines. However, it has also been deemed
unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United
States (according to the Eighth Amendment)to infl ....
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.... he or
she has not been convicted of committing. Excessive
bail has the same effect. The idea behind bail is to
make sure the accused is present during the trial. If
one’s bail is , in fact, excessive, the amount is set
higher than is reasonable. Logically, bail is usually
not set for an amount greater than the maximum monetary
sentence for the crime with which the defendant is being
charged.(Draper 80)
The most widely known aspect of the eighth
amendment is the fact that it prohibits c ....
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