They have obviously been out to get the current federal sentencing rules (on which many state sentencing schemes are based) for some time now. Major changes, they are acomin'.
We must not be too hard on our worst felonious criminals -- the Supreme Court is out of control, being dominated by weasel-worded liberal thinking, as opposed to focus on the laws and the Constitution of this country.
This is A VERY MAJOR PROBLEM FOR THIS COUNTRY and its Constitution.
Thanks for the interesting post. I am no lawyer, but I can tell you, three strikes works in California. We have seen a dramatic drop in crime over the 30 years I have been here.
I hope these abominable 3-strikes laws are struck down as they should be. Maybe then we will stop handing more and more power to judicial oligarchs and force legislatures to actually conduct the business for which they are paid.
Three strikes is a remedy for a problem created by light sentences. It was never the best answer. When the first time in prison is so bad that the the criminals don't want to go back, we won't have to worry about them doing it three times before they end up there for a long, long time.
They need to get out of jail with a look in their eye that says, "Where I just been you don't want to go."
Senility is the only rational explination.