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by davorak 4530 days ago
> Nope.

I am missing a legal nuance? It seems like a challenge along these lines is possible but unlikely to go very far.

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The Supreme Court has upheld three strikes laws that put people in prison for life for low-value non-violent thefts. No number of years for a crime, no matter how minor, seems to be too much. The only challenges that succeed are challenges to unusual applications of the death penalty.
It's possible in the sense that you can submit anything you want. It's not possible in the sense that it'll be dismissed out of hand.