That SCC article is really helpful, thanks! > The Ninth Circuit panel then walks through several important cases that touch on this question of what can be mad

That SCC article is really helpful, thanks! > The Ninth Circuit panel then walks through several important cases that touch on this question of what can be made criminal. Those cases highlight distinctions between criminalizing “status” and criminalizing “conduct,” beginning with a 1962 case, Robinson vs. California, in which the Supreme Court found that the State of California could not criminalize the state of being addicted to the use of narcotics (as opposed to the actual use of narcotics)