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Discovery of AIDS Doesn't Render Sentence Cruel And Unusual

On February 9, 1990, a New York court held that a prisoner who subsequent to sentencing discovered he had AIDS could not have his sentence set aside as being cruel and unusual.

Angel Escobales, a New York state prisoner, pleaded guilty to drug charges in a plea bargain for a ...

 

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