Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. You should write an incorrect option. Even though there exist multiple wrong answers, we only need a single wrong answer. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Problem:Clause even when a criminal conviction arises out of the same incident. Halper, supra, 490 U.S. at 448-49, 109 S.Ct. at 1902, 104 L.Ed.2d at 502. Furthermore, defendant's conviction for aggravated assault did not violate the Double Jeopardy Clause because the domestic violence proceeding was between the victim and defendant and did not involve the State. Halper states that "[t]he protections of the Double Jeopardy Clause are not triggered by litigation between private parties." Id. at 451, 109 S.Ct. at 1903, 104 L.Ed.2d at 503. Since the domestic violence action in this case did not involve the State, the Double Jeopardy Clause was not implicated. Ibid., see also Browning-Ferns Indus., Inc. v. Kelco Disposal, Inc., 492 U.S. 257, 260, 109 S.Ct. 2909, 2912, 106 L.Ed.2d 219, 228 (1989) (<HOLDING>). Consequently, the trial court properly denied
Holding statements: (A) holding that forfeitures may violate the eighth amendment excessive fines clause (B) holding that the fines imposed by the challenged city ordinances are not excessive even if the excessive fines clause is applicable (C) holding that punitive damages are not fines (D) holding that excessive fines clause of eighth amendment does not apply to punitive damage awards between private parties (E) holding that excessive fines clause does not apply to civiljury award of punitive fines
Solution:
holding that forfeitures may violate the eighth amendment excessive fines clause