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Saturday, November 21, 2009 10:39 PM

Published 10/30/2009 by NPR


Cases Show Disparity Of California's 3 Strikes Law

Erwin Chemerinsky, attorney for Leandro Andrade, chats with reporters outside the Supreme Court in 2002. Under the three strikes law, Andrade was put away for 50 years to life after stealing videotapes from two different Kmart stores. Chemerinsky challenged the case, and it went all the way to...

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"There's no question it was a setback; the result was very unfortunate" says Stanford Law professor...
Cases Show Disparity Of California's 3 Strikes Law [NPR - 10/30/2009]
"The judges said that had they understood at the time of sentencing what we were now explaining about the nature of the offense and the background of the offender, that they should have recognized that it was a case that was outside the spirit of three strikes" Marshall says
Cases Show Disparity Of California's 3 Strikes Law [NPR - 10/30/2009]
"You've stolen some socks from a store — and that's a real case of ours — that were valued at a few dollars" he says. 'We are going...
Cases Show Disparity Of California's 3 Strikes Law [NPR - 10/30/2009]

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