How has the court interpreted a section of the California Criminal Code that prohibits cruel and unusual punishment?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Leever, 173 Cal.App.3d 853, 219 Cal.Rptr. 581 (Cal. App. 1985):
8 By so interpreting the statute, the court avoided what it called "serious questions of constitutional dimension under both the due process and cruel and unusual punishment provisions of the Constitution." (People v. Skinner, supra, 39 Cal.3d 765, 774, 217 Cal.Rptr. 685, 704 P.2d 752.)
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