Taylor v. Lewis, No. 04-17517 (9th Cir.) (460 F.3d 1093) (August 15, 2006) (Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain)
Here the Ninth Circuit rejected a California inmate's 8th Amendment challenge to his 25-to-life three strikes sentence, which was imposed for possession of .036 grams of cocaine. The petitioner's prior strikes included a 1980 voluntary manslaughter conviction and a 1986 robbery with personal gun use. The Court concluded that no ...
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