Topic: drug addiction is not necessarily regarded as a mitigating … · Go Syfert
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3 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 19 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from People v. Martinez.

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1 People v. Martinez Anchor
calctapp · 1999
green “drug addiction is not necessarily regarded as a mitigating factor when a criminal defendant has a long-term problem and seems unwilling to pursue treatment” 8
2 People v. Strong
calctapp · 2001
green “the nonviolent or nonthreatening nature of the felony cannot alone take the crime outside the spirit of the law” 8

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