Errata: Three Strikes 4/12/02

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In last week's article on California's "three strikes" http://www.drcnet.org/wol/231.html#threestrikeslaw (), DRCNet wrote that "[u]nder California's three-strikes law, judges must impose a sentence of 25-to-life for any felony conviction if the defendant has two previous "serious" or violent felonies."

We have since been informed that the California Supreme Court has ruled that judges may sentence a three-strikes defendant to less than 25 years to life, if that decision is based on certain mitigating factors, as determined by an analysis as specified in the cases of People v. Superior Court (Romero) and People v. Williams (1998).

The Week Online regrets the error. We will in the near future publish a report on the implementation of California's three-strikes law.

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