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Harmelin v. Michigan 501 U.S. 957 (1991) was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Court ruled that the Eighth Amendment’s Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause allowed a state to impose a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the possession of 672 grams of cocaine.The Court’s narrow ruling left a major question of Eighth Amendment law unresolved. Since the Court’s decision in Gregg v.