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Name: People v. Mantanez
Case #: D038813
Division: 1
Citation: 98 Cal.App.4th 354
Opinion Date: 20020510
Subsequent History: Rev. denied 7/17/02.
Summary

A 25-year-to-life sentence for possessing stolen property and heroin was not cruel and unusual punishment. The Fourth District, Division One rejected both Andrade v. Attorney General (9th Cir. 2001) 270 F.3d 743 and Brown v. Mayle (9th Cir. 2001) 283 F.3d 1019, as wrongly decided and factually distinguishable.