California state prisoner Santos L. Reyes (“Reyes”) appeals the district court’s order denying his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition challenging his sent 1179, 1185-90, 155 L.Ed.2d 108 (2003) (<HOLDING>). The district court therefore properly denied
holding that the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment incorporates the eighth amendments guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment holding that a sentence of 25 years to life imposed for felony grand theft under californias threestrikes law did not violate the eighth amendment holding that 25 years to life sentence under the california three strikes law did not violate the eighth amendments prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment holding that an effective life sentence of fortyfive years for seconddegree forgery was excessive and that a life sentence was cruel and unusual in violation of the eighth amendment holding that the imposition of a true life sentence on two fourteenyearold offenders for committing the crime of rape was violative of the eighth amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment