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Title: Rummel v. Estelle
Author : Supreme Court of the United States
Release Date : January 18, 1980
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 87 KB

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Petitioner William James Rummel is presently serving a life sentence imposed by the State of Texas in 1973 under its "recidivist statute," formerly Art. 63 of its Penal Code, which provided that "[whoever] shall have been three times convicted of a felony less than capital shall on such third conviction be imprisoned for life in the penitentiary." On January