It needed a bit of tidying up: three-strikes legislation.(American Survey)
Economist (US), The, April, 1997
The California Supreme Court ruled that judges, not district attorneys, should determine when crimes should be applied to the state's three-strikes legislation. The ruling will hopefully alleviate erratic application of the law and reduce the costs associated with applying the law.
SAN FRANCISCO
NOT long ago, a bomb blew off the front of the county courthouse in Vallejo, California. The bomber was a man with two felony convictions who, it was said, intended to avoid a third trial by demolishing the courthouse where his trial was to take place. Criminals in California have acquired the habit of thinking in threes. Yet the law that obsesses them-the "three-strikes" law, which mandates a sentence of 25 years or life in prison for anybody convicted of a third...
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