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A 4 page overview of California’s Three Strike law. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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illegal behavior. As the name suggests, if someone is convicted of a felony three times they will serve perhaps the fullest term of incarceration possible. As one author notes, "Passed
by the legislature and endorsed by voters in 1994, it mandates a sentence of 25 years to life for a third felony conviction if the previous felonies were serious our
violent" (PBS, 1996). The following paper provides an overview of this particular law. Three Strikes The Penal Code indicates that "any person convicted of a serious felony who
previously has been convicted of a serious felony in this state or of any offense committed in another jurisdiction which includes all of the elements of any serious felony, shall
receive, in addition to the sentence imposed by the court for the present offense, a five-year enhancement for each such prior conviction on charges brought and tried separately" (California Criminal
Law Observer, 2004). The felonies must have been violent somehow in nature, and this obviously leaves a lot of room for deviation. In addition, we note that juveniles who have
been convicted of felonies that apply to this law can have their felonies accepted as part of the Three Strikes law if the juvenile was 16 or older when they
committed the act, if their felony falls into certain categories, if they were deemed mature enough to understand their sentence and crime, and if there were made a ward of
the court (California Criminal Law Observer, 2004). There are obviously far more legal stipulations, many of which refer to other codes and laws, but the information presented
sums up much of what the laws intentions and actions are. There are many legal professionals who argue that this law is not a law that is definitive enough and
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