Legal Opinion
Isaac Ramirez v. R.A. Castro, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 27, 2004No. 02-56066PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WARDLAW, Circuit Judge:
The State of California through its Attorney General, Bill Lockyer, appeals from the district court’s judgment granting a writ of habeas corpus to petitioner Isaac Ramirez on the grounds that (1) his 25-years-to-life sentence under California’s “Three Strikes” law, CaLPenal Code §§ 667, 667.5, and 1170.12, violated his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment, and (2) the California Court of Appeal’s decision to the contrary was objectively unreasonable under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291 and 2253, and we…
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