The area is now largely comprised of SRO hotels (multi-unit housing for very low income persons typically consisting of a single room with shared bathroom), shelters, and other facilities for the homeless. Joyce, however, was based on a very different factual underpinning than is present here. According to Justice White, if [Robinson] was convicted for being an addict who had lost his power of self-control, I would have other thoughts about this case. Id. 2145. But generally one cannot become a drug addict or alcoholic, as those terms are commonly used, without engaging in at least some voluntary acts (taking drugs, drinking alcohol). at 567, 88 S.Ct. As the Supreme Court explained in O'Shea v. Littleton, 414 U.S. 488, 94 S.Ct. Id. Guide to Electric Service. 2145 (Marshall, J., plurality)). 2145 (White, J., concurring in the result). In contrast to Leroy Powell, Appellants have made a substantial showing that they are unable to stay off the streets on the night[s] in question. Powell, 392 U.S. at 554, 88 S.Ct. on Homelessness & Poverty, A Dream Denied: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities 10, 40-41 (2006). They use their General Relief payments to stay in motels for part of every month and try to stay in shelters when their money runs out. 2145 (White, J., concurring in the judgment). Moreover, the preliminary injunction plaintiffs sought in Joyce was so broad as to enjoin enforcement of prohibitions on camping or lodging in public parks and on life-sustaining activities such as sleeping, sitting or remaining in a public place, which might also include such antisocial conduct as public urination and aggressive panhandling. The result, in City officials' own words, is that [t]he gap between the homeless population needing a shelter bed and the inventory of shelter beds is severely large. Homelessness Report, supra, at 80. Lyons, 461 U.S. at 101-02, 103 S.Ct. for the Homeless & Nat'l Law Ctr. Id. See Johnson, 256 F.3d at 915 (Where it is clear that a statement is uttered in passing without due consideration of the alternatives, it may be appropriate to re-visit the issue in a later case.). For many, including the homeless persons who pursue this action, it is a status that fluctuates on a daily basis and can change depending upon income and opportunities for shelter. Emily N. McMorris, Jones v. 2-3 (White, J., dissenting) (discussing jury instructions regarding addiction and substantial evidence of Robinson's frequent narcotics use in the days prior to his arrest); and second, and most importantly, for understanding his opinion in Powell, because the record did not suggest that Robinson's drug addiction was involuntary, see id. Naslovna stranica; O nama; Proizvodi. Justice White's Powell opinion also echoes his prior dissent in Robinson. Regardless, the challenge should fail even on the majority's view of the law because Jones has not shown that he was accused of being in an involuntary condition which he had no capacity to change or avoid. He could not afford to pay the resulting fine. 4. Charlie LeDuff, In Los Angeles, Skid Row Resists an Upgrade, N.Y. Times, July 15, 2003, at A1. Many are able to escape it altogether. Joel v. City of Orlando, 232 F.3d 1353, 1357 (11th Cir.2000) (affirming summary judgment for the City where [t]he shelter has never reached its maximum capacity and no individual has been turned away for lack of space or for inability to pay the one dollar fee). According to Barger's declaration, he want[s] to be off the street but can only rarely afford shelter. 23 of Water & Power (Case No. The Court explained that the Clause places three distinct limits on the state's criminal law powers: First, it limits the kinds of punishment that can be imposed on those convicted of crimes; second, it proscribes punishment grossly disproportionate to the severity of the crime; and third, it imposes substantive limits on what can be made criminal and punished as such. Edward Jones and his wife are homeless. We reverse the award of summary judgment to the City, grant summary judgment to Appellants, and remand to the district court for a determination of injunctive relief consistent with this opinion. 26660. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. The last mentioned case does not uphold respondent's contention. This would run afoul of Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37, 91 S.Ct. In United States v. Ritter, 752 F.2d 435 (1985), the defendant was convicted of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. 2145 (White, J., concurring in the result). 1326 impermissibly punished him for the status of being found in the United States. Ritter argued that requiring documents to check his status offended the Eighth Amendment's substantive limits on what can be made criminal. 2145 (Marshall, J., plurality opinion) (stating that Robinson requires an actus reus before the state may punish). A basic midwestern personal injury attorney, Landskroner one day ended up in Los Angeles, as a consumer rights guy, working on the LADWP water billing case. Thus the arrests upon which Jones relies do not implicate the Eighth Amendment. See Bell v. Wolfish, 441 U.S. 520, 535 n. 16, 99 S.Ct. 2145 (White, J., concurring in the judgment). at 664, 97 S.Ct. 608, 87 L.Ed. Similarly, an individual may become homeless based on factors both within and beyond his immediate control, especially in consideration of the composition of the homeless as a group: the mentally ill, addicts, victims of domestic violence, the unemployed, and the unemployable. at 569-70, 88 S.Ct. at 2; see also Grace R. Dyrness et al., Crisis on the Streets: Homeless Women and Children in Los Angeles 14 (2003) (noting that approximately 14% of homeless individuals in Los Angeles are victims of domestic violence). Brief of the County of Los Angeles, et al. Id. Contact us. at 667, 97 S.Ct. Auth., supra, at 2-10. Put them in jail. Kidder also argued that even if he were being punished for his acts rather than his status, the involuntary nature of the acts rendered them immune from criminal punishment. It targets conduct-sitting, lying or sleeping on city sidewalks-that can be committed by those with homes as well as those without. at 550 n. 2, 88 S.Ct. See, e.g., Portland, Or., Mun.Code 14A.50.020, .030 (2006) (prohibiting obstruction of public sidewalks in a designated area or camping on public property). City of Los Angeles v. Lyons, 461 U.S. 95, 101-02, 103 S.Ct. Id. 746, 27 L.Ed.2d 669 (1971), and related cases. at 425. "Jones" refers to a lawsuit titled Antwon Jones vs. City of Los Angeles, which was confirmed in a court investigation last year to have been a, "sham lawsuit," in which the City. 669. Barger was jailed, convicted of violating section 41.18(d), and sentenced to two days time served. 20 Notice is hereby given to all parties in the case and action of Jones v. City of. First, it limits the kinds of punishment that can be imposed on those convicted of crimes; second, it proscribes punishment grossly disproportionate to the severity of the crime; and third, it imposes substantive limits on what can be made criminal and punished as such. Upon his release, Purrie returned to the corner where he had been sleeping on the night of his arrest to find that all the belongings he had left behind, including blankets, clothes, cooking utensils, a hygiene kit, and other personal effects, were gone. at 686, 97 S.Ct. A statute such as the one challenged in this case is constitutional insofar as it authorizes a police officer to arrest any seriously intoxicated person when he is encountered in a public place. jones v city of los angeles ladwp does bill pullman have sciatica/are rangers in financial trouble again 2021 / jones v city of los angeles ladwp. Stre folija; Termo Shrink folija . See Joyce, 846 F.Supp. Justice Marshall's plurality opinion rejected Powell's reliance on Robinson because Powell was not convicted for being a chronic alcoholic but for being in public while drunk on a particular occasion. 1417. If there is no offense for which the homeless can be convicted, is the City admitting that all that comes before is merely police harassment of a vulnerable population? This, too, calls into question the plaintiffs' standing. at 437. The ramifications of so holding are quite extraordinary. It is a continuing offense and differs from most other offenses in the fact that [it] is chronic rather than acute; that it continues after it is complete and subjects the offender to arrest at any time before he reforms All that the People must show is that while in the City of Los Angeles [Robinson] was addicted to the use of narcotics. Rather, [t]he entire thrust of Robinson's interpretation of the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause is that criminal penalties may be inflicted only if the accused has committed some act, has engaged in some behavior, which society has an interest in preventing, or perhaps in historical common law terms, has committed some actus reus. The City demonstrated that of 3820 referral slips offered to men, only 1866 were taken and only 678 used. Address: 111 N. Hope St. Los Angeles CA 90012. . GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS A class action lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles, captioned Jones v. City of Los Angeles, Case No. Jones argues that he and other homeless people are not willing or able to pursue such a defense because the costs of pleading guilty are so low and the risks and challenges of pleading innocent are substantial. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. 1401. at 567, 88 S.Ct. For example, Las Vegas prohibits standing or lying in a public way only when it obstructs pedestrian or vehicular traffic. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. at 668, 97 S.Ct. Purrie was sleeping in the same location on January 14, 2003, when police officers woke him early in the morning and searched, handcuffed, and arrested him pursuant to a warrant for failing to pay the fine from his earlier citation. See L.A. 2145, 20 L.Ed.2d 1254 (1968) (White, J., concurring in the judgment). The argument that at trial a homeless individual would have recourse to a necessity defense so as to avoid conviction begs the question why the City arrests homeless individuals during nighttime in the first place, other than out of indifference or meanness. If the state transgresses this limit, a person suffers constitutionally cognizable harm as soon as he is subjected to the criminal process. Id. Whether sitting, lying, and sleeping are defined as acts or conditions, they are universal and unavoidable consequences of being human. For those chronic alcoholics who lack homes. 1417. During oral argument, the attorney for the City asserted that L.A.P.D. According to the lawsuit, the broken. According to a federal search warrant excerpt reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, the FBI agents who raided City Hall and the DWP on Monday morning were looking for DWP contracts with. Johnson, 61 F.3d at 444. As Justice White pointed out with respect to Powell, testimony about his usual condition when drunk is no substitute for evidence about his condition at the time of his arrest. Powell, 392 U.S. at 553, 88 S.Ct. 1551, 1559-60 (S.D.Fla.1992), states one way or the other whether plaintiffs had been convicted. at 667-68, 97 S.Ct. L.Rev. In Robinson, the Court reversed the conviction of a drug addict who had been convicted of violating a California statute that made it a criminal offense for a person to be addicted to the use of narcotics. The Court observed of this statute, that it. Ct. App. They seek a permanent injunction against the City of Los Angeles and L.A.P.D. Purrie sleeps on the streets because he cannot afford a room in an SRO hotel and is often unable to find an open bed in a shelter. Penal Code Ann. It is undisputed that, for homeless individuals in Skid Row who have no access to private spaces, these acts can only be done in public. Maj. op. Chief William Bratton, insisting that the Department does not target the homeless but only people who violate city ordinances (presumably including the ordinance at issue), has stated: If the behavior is aberrant, in the sense that it breaks the law, then there are city ordinances You arrest them, prosecute them. As will be discussed below, Appellants' declarations demonstrate that they are not on the streets of Skid Row by informed choice. Cara Mia DiMassa & Richard Winton, Dumping of Homeless Suspected Downtown, L.A. Times, Sept. 23, 2005, at A1. 1401 (White, J., dissenting)). Please try again. Appellants are entitled at a minimum to a narrowly tailored injunction against the City's enforcement of section 41.18(d) at certain times and/or places. Unlike the cases the dissent relies on, which involve failure to carry immigration documents, illegal reentry, and drug dealing, the conduct at issue here is involuntary and inseparable from status-they are one and the same, given that human beings are biologically compelled to rest, whether by sitting, lying, or sleeping. 344, 350-51 (N.D.Tex.1994), rev'd on standing grounds, 61 F.3d 442 (5th Cir.1995). for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty, Who Is Homeless in Los Angeles? 3 (2000). Cf. Compare Powell, 392 U.S. at 553, 88 S.Ct. The Joyce court also concluded that homelessness was not a status protectable under the Eighth Amendment, holding that it was merely a constitutionally noncognizable condition. Id. 2d 185 ] there affirms the rule that "the existence of a conspicuous defect or dangerous condition of a street or sidewalk for a . at 1135. The Eighth Amendment Prohibition on Cruel and Unusual Punishment. 897, 899 n. 2, 908 (D.Colo.1969) (three-judge court); see also Wheeler v. Goodman, 306 F.Supp. 2545, 61 L.Ed.2d 176 (1979). In other words, the City cannot penalize the status of being homeless plus the condition of being without shelter that exists by virtue of the City's failure to provide sufficient housing on any given night. See Robinson, 370 U.S. at 665-67, 82 S.Ct. They both lack standing, and lose on the merits, for this reason as well. 843 (N.D.Cal.1994), that status cannot be defined as a function of the discretionary acts of others, and held that even if homelessness were considered a status, criminalizing the acts of sitting, lying, or sleeping on the streets would not be a cognizable violation of the Eighth Amendment. Stanley Barger suffered a brain injury in a car accident in 1998 and subsequently lost his Social Security Disability Insurance. When they lack money for a motel room, they take the bus to a shelter in South Los Angeles. Recently, it has been reported that local hospitals and law enforcement agencies from nearby suburban areas have been caught dumping homeless individuals in Skid Row upon their release. On appeal to the United States Supreme Court, Powell argued that the Eighth Amendment prohibited punish[ing] an ill person for conduct over which he has no control. Brief for Appellant at 6, Powell, 392 U.S. 514, 88 S.Ct. Id. L.A.P.D. Noting that the statute in Powell differed from the statute in Robinson by covering more than mere status (being intoxicated and being found in a public place while in that condition), the dissent nevertheless found the same constitutional defect present as in both cases, the defendant was accused of being in a condition which he had no capacity to change or avoid. Id. Justice White concurred in the judgment. His average. I disagree, and therefore dissent, for a number of reasons. 2006). 21 Los Angeles and the related cases: Kimhi v. City of Los Angeles (Case No. 2841, 92 L.Ed.2d 140 (1986) (Blackmun, J., dissenting) (quoting and endorsing this statement in discussing whether the Eighth Amendment limits the state's ability to criminalize homosexual acts). In United States v. Kidder, 869 F.2d 1328 (9th Cir.1989), a defendant convicted of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute argued that he was being unconstitutionally punished because of his status as a mentally ill drug addict. 1417 & nn. 304, the city rezoned the neighborhood in which the plaintiff was operating a sanitarium to prohibit residential mental health facilities, and the court ruled that compensation was required because the rezoning had "destroyed" or "eradicated" the business, rendering it completely without value. The City and the dissent apparently believe that Appellants can avoid sitting, lying, and sleeping for days, weeks, or months at a time to comply with the City's ordinance, as if human beings could remain in perpetual motion. 2145 (White, J., concurring in the judgment). As Jones puts it, so long as there are more homeless people than shelter beds, the nightly search for shelter will remain a zero-sum game in which many of the homeless, through no fault of their own, will end up breaking the law. By enforcing the ordinance, Jones contends, the City subjects homeless persons to a cycle of citation, arrest, and punishment for the involuntary and harmless conduct of sitting or lying in the street. 2145, 20 L.Ed.2d 1254 (1968), when it held that the only relevant inquiry is whether the ordinance at issue punishes status as opposed to conduct, and that homelessness is not a constitutionally cognizable status. Candidates from the eligible list are normally appointed to vacancies in the lower pay grade positions.2. At approximately noon on January 10, 2003, Cash tired as he walked to the SRO hotel where he was staying. However, the Eighth Amendment does not afford due process protection when a Fourteenth Amendment claim proves unavailing. JESSE JONES, JR., a Minor, etc., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES, Defendant and Respondent. 1401 (citations omitted). Federal law defines the term homeless individual to include, (1)an individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence; and, (2)an individual who has a primary nighttime residence that is-. City of Los Angeles, 5 Cal. 2145. However, the Eighth Amendment's protections d[o] not attach until after conviction and sentence. Graham, 490 U.S. at 392 n. 6, 109 S.Ct. ANNUAL SALARY$102,541 to $149,939 and $114,631 to $167,624NOTES:1. L.A. Housing Crisis Task Force, In Short Supply 6 (2000). Roundtable, Homeless in LA: A Working Paper for the 10-Year Plan To End Homelessness in Los Angeles County (2003) (estimating that more than 253,000 individuals were homeless in Los Angeles County at some point during 2002). Jan. 30, 1979.] The email address cannot be subscribed. officers cited him. See Mayor's Citizens' Task Force, supra, at 5. Nor, until now, has the Supreme Court or any other circuit court of appeals intimated (let alone held) that status plus a condition which exists on account of discretionary action by someone else is the kind of involuntary condition that cannot be criminalized. at 666, 82 S.Ct. Hosp., 463 U.S. 239, 243-44, 103 S.Ct. LADWP Electric Rate Case Settlement Administrator c/o Kurtzman Carson Consultants P.O. Neither the Supreme Court nor any other circuit court of appeals has ever held that conduct derivative of a status may not be criminalized. He was cited for violating LAMC 41.18(d) but failed to appear, which apparently led to a warrant being issued for his arrest. See L.A. 1401 (White, J., dissenting) (explaining that the Court's reasoning depends on the distinction between criminal and noncriminal punishment). Similarly, applying Robinson and Powell, courts have found statutes criminalizing the status of vagrancy to be unconstitutional. Jones v. City of Los Angeles Annotate this Case [Civ. This is not a class action; each of the six must have been injured in fact by enforcement of the ordinance. In his separate opinion, Justice White rejected the plurality's proposed status-conduct distinction, finding it similar to forbidding criminal conviction for being sick with flu or epilepsy but permitting punishment for running a fever or having a convulsion. Id. 2145 (White, J., concurring in the judgment); id. 2. Id. 2145, and concluded that [t]he proper subject of inquiry is whether volitional acts [sufficiently proximate to the condition] brought about the criminalized conduct or condition, id. at 320, 108 S.Ct. He was standing on it at the fourth or fifth rung from the top, 25 to 30 feet from the ground when he leaned out, extending the 12-foot pruning hook full length, to cut a branch about midway between the fifth and sixth trees. Yet this does not give us license to expand the narrow limits that, in a rare type of case, the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment places on substantive criminal law. Ingraham rests on the distinction between state action inside and outside the criminal process, id. 1. The plaintiff need only establish that there is a reasonable expectation that his conduct will recur, triggering the alleged harm; he need not show that such recurrence is probable. at 662-63, 82 S.Ct. Citing Robinson as an example of the rare type of case in which the clause has been used to limit what may be made criminal, we held that the statute at issue in Ritter did not come with the purview of this unusual sort of case. Id. The City of Los Angeles, et al., Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. According to the declaration of Michael Alvidrez, a manager of single-room-occupancy (SRO) hotels in Skid Row owned by the Skid Row Housing Trust, since the mid-1970s Los Angeles has chosen to centralize homeless services in Skid Row. Appellants abandoned their second claim pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 990, 51 L.Ed.2d 260 (1977) (omission in original) (internal quotation marks omitted); see also Kent Greenawalt, Uncontrollable Actions and the Eighth Amendment: Implications of Powell v. Texas, 69 Colum. United States v. Black, 116 F.3d 198, 201 (7th Cir.1997) (rejecting convicted pedophile's Eighth Amendment challenge to his prosecution for receiving, distributing, and possessing child pornography because, inter alia, defendant did not show that [the] charged conduct was involuntary or uncontrollable). Here, there is no evidence of Eighth Amendment harm to any of the six homeless persons who prosecute this action and equitable relief cannot be based on alleged injuries to others. Auth., Los Angeles Continuum of Care, Exhibit 1 Narrative, at 2-17 (2001); see also Patrick Burns et al., Econ. Inst. jones v city of los angeles ladwpmlb 2022 projected standings. As a result of the expansive reach of section 41.18(d), the extreme lack of available shelter in Los Angeles, and the large homeless population, thousands of people violate the Los Angeles ordinance every day and night, and many are arrested, losing what few possessions they may have.2 Appellants are among them. At a minimum, Robinson establishes that the state may not criminalize being; that is, the state may not punish a person for who he is, independent of anything he has done. The Joneses receive $375 per month from the Los Angeles County General Relief program, enabling them to stay in Skid Row SRO hotels for the first two weeks of each month. Relying heavily on Joyce v. City and County of San Francisco, 846 F.Supp. In a 4-1-4 decision, the Court affirmed Powell's conviction. City East, To Build a Community 5 (1988). There is no record of conviction, or any evidence that Purrie was turned away from a shelter the night he was cited. 2145 (White, J., concurring in the judgment); see also Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, 202 n. 2, 106 S.Ct. The Court did not articulate the principles that undergird its holding. The majority relies on the dissenting opinions and dicta in the concurring opinion in Powell (which involved a conviction for public drunkenness of an alcoholic who was to some degree compelled to drink), but not even the Powell dissent would go so far as to hold that conduct which is closely related to status may not constitutionally be punished unless the conduct is a characteristic and involuntary part of the pattern of the [status] as it afflicts the particular individual. 2145 (White, J., concurring in the result). Patricia and George Vinson have tried to rent rooms in Skid Row hotels and to get into various shelters, but have been unable to find a facility with space they can afford that will allow them to stay together. Against this background, the City asserts the constitutionality of enforcing Los Angeles Municipal Code section 41.18(d) against those involuntarily on the streets during nighttime hours, such as Appellants. In support of this argument, the City relies on In re Eichorn, 69 Cal.App.4th 382, 81 Cal.Rptr.2d 535, 539-40 (1998), in which the California Court of Appeal held that a homeless defendant may raise a necessity defense to violation of a municipal anti-camping ordinance. Appellants seek only prospective injunctive relief, not damages. 2006) Rule: Just as the Eighth Amendment prohibits the infliction of criminal punishment on an individual for being a drug addict, or for involuntary public drunkenness that is an unavoidable consequence of being a chronic alcoholic without a home, the Eighth Amendment prohibits a city from punishing involuntary . 674, 27 L.Ed.2d 701 (1971) (Brennan, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part) (noting prior aggressive prosecution under an allegedly unconstitutional law as a factor for finding sufficient controversy for declaratory relief). The Fifth Circuit reversed, reasoning that the very dicta from Ingraham that the City now relies on required a conviction for standing. When Thomas Cash was cited for violating section 41.18(d), he had not worked for approximately two years since breaking his foot and losing his job, and had been sleeping on the street or in a Skid Row SRO hotel. 11302(a) (2000). at 667, 97 S.Ct. No. Early in the morning of December 5, 2002, Purrie declares that he was sleeping on the sidewalk at Sixth Street and Towne Avenue because he had nowhere else to sleep. At 5:20 a.m., L.A.P.D. 89, 359 P.2d 457], abolished the doctrine of governmental immunity in this state for torts for which its agents are liable.As a result of such decision, and because of its far . 180]. The record before us includes declarations and supporting documentation from nearly four dozen other homeless individuals living in Skid Row who have been searched, ordered to move, cited, arrested, and/or prosecuted for, and in some cases convicted of, violating section 41.18(d). This is important for two reasons: first, because it shows that the statute itself does not suffer the Robinson defect of making the status of being homeless a criminal offense; and second, because there is no evidence that Jones or any of the parties joining with him-including Purrie or Barger, who were convicted of violating LAMC 41.18(d)-were unable to stay off the sidewalk on the night they were arrested. He was arrested pursuant to the warrant and also charged with violating the ordinance. The defense encompasses the very difficulties that Jones posits here: sleeping on the streets because alternatives were inadequate and economic forces were primarily to blame for his predicament. at 549, 88 S.Ct. B. Skid Row is a place of desperate poverty, drug use, and crime, where Porta-Potties serve as sleeping quarters and houses of prostitution. In focusing on this lack of a conviction, the Fifth Circuit, the City, and the dissent all fail to recognize the distinction between the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause's first two protections and its third. Id. 2145 (Fortas, J., dissenting) (noting that like the addict in Robinson, an alcoholic is powerless to avoid drinking to the point of intoxication and once intoxicated, to prevent himself from appearing in public places). If you are having issues accessing your account, please contact our Rates Application Group at (213) 367-4709. Annual salary is at the start of the pay range. This is an action to enjoin the enforcement of a zoning ordinance of the City of Los Angeles. Jones and the others sued the City of Los Angeles and its police department, claiming that the ordinance violated their Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment.. As applied to [such alcoholics] this statute is in effect a law which bans a single act for which they may not be convicted under the Eighth Amendment-the act of getting drunk. Id. United for Separation of Church and State, Inc., 454 U.S. 464, 472, 102 S.Ct. In Powell v. Texas, 392 U.S. 514, 88 S.Ct. Undisputed evidence in the record establishes that at the time they were cited or arrested, Appellants had no choice other than to be on the streets. 1219, 28 L.Ed.2d 524 (1971), is to the contrary. Finally, one must question the policy of arresting, jailing, and prosecuting individuals whom the City Attorney concedes cannot be convicted due to a necessity defense. BC577267, pursuant to Section 54956.9(d)(l) ofthe California Government Code. Channel 35 is the City's official cable channel which produces Emmy award winning shows geared for the citizens of L.A. City of Los Angeles. In contrast, we find no Eighth Amendment protection for conduct that a person makes unavoidable based on their own immediately proximate voluntary acts, for example, driving while drunk, harassing others, or camping or building shelters that interfere with pedestrian or automobile traffic. See id. There is obviously a homeless problem in the City of Los Angeles, which the City is free to address in any way that it sees fit, consistent with the constitutional principles we have articulated. We understood his contention to be that his involvement was caused by mental illness, so to imprison him for drug dealing was tantamount to punishing him for being mentally ill. Id. We nevertheless consider this challenge because the question of standing is jurisdictional and may be raised at any time by the parties, Laub v. 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