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'''''Robinson v. California''''', 370 U.S. 660 (1962), is the first [[List of landmark court decisions in the United States|landmark]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Robinson v. California |url=https://law.jrank.org/pages/9904/Robinson-v-California.html |website=law.jrank.org |publisher=Law Library - American Law and Legal Information |access-date=August 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919212429/https://law.jrank.org/pages/9904/Robinson-v-California.html |archive-date=September 19, 2016}}</ref> decision of the [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] in which the [[Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Eighth Amendment]] of the Constitution was interpreted to prohibit criminalization of particular acts or conduct, as contrasted with prohibiting the use of a particular form of punishment for a crime. In ''Robinson'', the Court struck down a California law that criminalized being addicted to [[narcotics]].<ref>{{ussc|name=Robinson v. California|volume=370|page=660|pin=667|year=1962}} ("We hold that a state law which imprisons a person thus afflicted as a criminal, even though he has never touched any narcotic drug within the State or been guilty of any irregular behavior there, inflicts a cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.").</ref>
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