Lockyer v. Andrade
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lockyer-v-andrade-193-15524005
title:
Lockyer v. Andrade
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Lockyer v. Andrade, 538 U.S. 63 (2003), decided the same day as Ewing v. California, held that there would be no relief by means of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus from a sentence imposed under California's three strikes law as a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments. Relying on the reasoning of Ewing and Harmelin v. Michigan, the Court ruled that because no "clearly established" law held that a three-strikes sentence was cruel and unusual punish
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2003 United States Supreme Court case
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2023-09-13T02:37:32Z
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