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Ewing v. California 538 U.S. 11 (2003) is one of two cases upholding a sentence imposed under California’s three strikes law against a challenge that it constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. As in its prior decision in Harmelin v. Michigan 501 U.S. 957 (1991) the United States Supreme Court could not agree on the precise reasoning for upholding the sentence. Nevertheless with the decision in Ewing and the companion case Lockyer v.