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Solem v. Helm 463 U.S. 277 (1983) was a United States Supreme Court case concerned with the scope of the Eighth Amendment protection from cruel and unusual punishment. Mr. Helm who had written a check from a fictitious account and had reached his seventh nonviolent felony conviction since 1964 received a mandatory sentence under South Dakota law at that time to life in prison with no parole. Petitioner Mr. Solem was the warden of the South Dakota State Penitentiary at the time.