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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 ...
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.
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.
The state’s Democratic supermajority has repeatedly shut down attempts to expand the law lengthening prison sentences for repeat offenders. California adds three-strikes crime for first time in ...
Criminal justice advocates want the Legislature to revive a failed bill to eliminate juvenile offenses from California's 'three strikes' law
The first-in-the-nation law demands life in prison without possibility of parole for convicted murderers. California politicians talk tough on crime, but 'three-strikes' law quietly threatened ...
The People of the State of California v. Superior Court (Romero), 13 CAL. 4TH 497, 917 P.2D 628 (Cal. 1996), was a landmark case in the state of California that gave California Superior Court judges the ability to dismiss a criminal defendant's "strike prior" pursuant to the California Three-strikes law, thereby avoiding a 25-to-life minimum sentence.
The death of his daughter forced major revisions of the state’s sentencing laws. Fresno’s Mike Reynolds, a driving force behind California’s three-strikes law, dies at 79 Skip to main content