Certiorari denied.
JUSTICE SOUTER, with whom JUSTICE BREYER joins, dissenting.
Two Terms ago this Court denied certiorari in Riggs v. California, 525 U.S. 1114 (1999). The issue was an Eighth Amendment challenge to California's statutory scheme that allows a petty theft (normally a misdemeanor) to be counted as a third felony for purposes of a three-strikes law, resulting in a sentence of 25 years to life. Id., at 1115. This case raises...
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