BEAM, Circuit Judge.
A South Dakota state court sentenced Mark Alan Hutto to sixty years' imprisonment for his role in an attempted escape from the Huron Regional Correctional Center and for being a habitual offender, as defined by state statute. Hutto asserts that the sixty-year sentence violates the concept of proportionality found within the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, he appeals the federal district
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