Brown v. Mayle, No. 99-17261 (9th Cir.) (283 F.3d 1019) (February 7, 2002) (Judge Marsha L. Berzon)
Last Fall, a divided panel from the Ninth Circuit struck down two, consecutive 25-years-to-life sentences imposed under California’s three strikes law; and held that the sentences, which had been imposed on a defendant convicted of petty theft who had seven prior non-violent crimes, violated the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel ...
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