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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 501 U.S.