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One application of a three-strikes law was the Leonardo Andrade case in California in 2009. In this case, Leandro Andrade attempted to rob for $153 in videotapes from two San Bernardino K-Mart stores. He was charged under California's three-strikes law because of his criminal history concerning drugs and other burglaries.
Proposition 36, also titled A Change in the "Three Strikes Law" Initiative, was a California ballot measure that was passed in November 2012 to modify California's Three Strikes Law (passed in 1994). The latter law punishes habitual offenders by establishing sentence escalation for crimes that were classified as "strikes", and requires a ...
California leaders began changing laws like three strikes after a panel of federal judges in 2009 ordered the state to reduce prison overcrowding, a decision the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed in 2011.
For the record: 12:30 p.m. April 1, 2024: An earlier version of this article referred to California Sen. Brian Dahle (R-Bieber) as a state Assembly member. Also, the story stated that Proposition ...
In 1997, mandatory "three strikes" laws were introduced for property offences in the Northern Territory, which raised incarceration rates of Indigenous women by 223% in the first year. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] The mandatory sentencing laws caused controversy [ 38 ] and sparked debate due to the laws discriminative impacts on Indigenous Australians. [ 39 ]
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Lockyer v. Andrade, 538 U.S. 63 (2003), [1] decided the same day as Ewing v. California (a case with a similar subject matter), [2] held that there would be no relief by means of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus from a sentence imposed under California's three strikes law as a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments.
Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón has asked the California Supreme Court to review the decisions by a trial and an appellate court to knock down one of his most controversial policies ...