[11th Earl of Mar]

25 years for simply stealing golf clubs?

Not quite.

What were his first two crimes? Anybody know?

[jlogajan]

It is more like a law against stupidity.

[B-bone]

This clip from a longer story I found via google from the Austin-American Statesman.


"Ewing had four prior convictions for robbery and burglary. Although prosecutors could have charged him with a misdemeanor in the golf club case, they chose to charge him with a felony under the state's three-strikes law."

http://www.austin360.com/aas/news/ap/ap_story.html/Washington/AP.V6155.AP-Scotus-Three-St.html

[PISANO]

FELONIES. That clinches it for me.