The United States Supreme Court paved the way for three-strike laws when it ruled in _____________ that Texas' habitual offender statute did not constitute "cruel and unusual punishment" under the Eighth Amendment.
A) Rummel v.Estelle
B) United States v.Booker
C) Weems v.United States
D) Furman v.Georgia
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