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73 F. App'x 304

Johnson v. Mueller

U.S. Courts of Appeals

Decided August 20, 2003

U.S. Courts of Appeals · decided 2003-08-20

Cited by 1 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2004

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Lockyer Attorney General of California v. Andrade · Ewing v. California

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Decided 2003-08-20

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¶1*305MEMORANDUM

¶2California state prisoner Emmith Lee Johnson appeals pro se the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition, challenging his conviction for narcotics violations and related counts. We affirm.

¶3Johnson contends that his sentence of twenty-eight years to life imposed under California’s “three strikes” law violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. We conclude that petitioner’s argument is foreclosed by Ewing v. California, 538 U.S. 63, 123 S.Ct. 1179, 1190, 155 L.Ed.2d 108 (2003) (acknowledging broad discretion possessed by legislatures and holding that three-strikes sentence of 25 years to life for felony grand theft was not grossly disproportionate), and Lockyer v. Andrade, 538 U.S. 11, 123 S.Ct. 1166, 1175, 155 L.Ed.2d 144 (2003) (holding that state court’s affirmance of two consecutive 25-years-to-life sentences for petty theft was not contrary to or an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law). The district court therefore properly denied Johnson’s petition. See Andrade, 123 S.Ct. at 1174.

¶4AFFIRMED.

¶5 This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.

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