October 6, 2009

POS 282--Introduction to American Law
In class today, Tuesday 10/6, we began by finishing our discussion of Gregg v. Georgia. I then went over two case that will be argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in November, Sullivan v. Florida and Graham v. Florida, which both raise the question under the 8th Amendment of the imposition of life sentences for minors.
We discussed the Mobbley case on p. 77 and the Holland case on P. 79 of the text. The assignment for Thursday 10/8 is to read and prepare to discuss through p. 97 of the text.