Three_Strikes

Three Strikes Three Strike Law “Three strike and you’re out,” law generally prescribe that felons found guilty of a third serious crime to be locked up for 25 years to life. Three-strike law is California law that went into effect in March 1994. Some say that three-strike law is cruel and unusual because people can be put into jail for weird counts as long they have three felonies count. This had cause jail to be more over crowed since the war on drug era. The three strike law applied to 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). For example you have committed an arm robbery and was caught, that is one count and you have serve your time for that. Later on you did another offense. This time you did beat someone up three, strikes, strike, law, serious, committed, time, people, education, theft, because, violent, third, put, offenses, offense, jail, felonies, california, state, prison, out, life, it’s, help, felony, don’t, another, year, sentence, petty, non-serious, new, longer, k-12