City of Seattle v. Hill
Washington Supreme Court
1Opinion of the CourtHale, J.
Is chronic addictive alcoholism a disease? Is it a disease that relieves one of liability under the criminal laws prohibiting drunkenness and disorderly conduct in public? Are city ordinances which forbid public drunkenness, and disorderly conduct induced by drunkenness, unconstitutional when applied to chronic addictive alcoholics? This case began with one of the two million arrests for public intoxication made annually in this country. See President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, The Challenge of Crime (1967), at 233.
Arrested and convicted of unlawful public…
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