tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107037609455779557.post1570543245844955913..comments2024-02-28T05:56:28.293-08:00Comments on California Correctional Crisis: 7/31: SF Chronicle on 2-strikersHadar Aviramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200780666976305749noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107037609455779557.post-62274525056931054502011-09-04T00:13:05.797-07:002011-09-04T00:13:05.797-07:00Knowledge is everything, we have habitual offender...Knowledge is everything, we have habitual offender laws, we have a 1-strike law for sex offenders, we don't need this emotionally motivated 3-strikes BS law. One must focus on the whole 3-strikes law to understand how it's really unjust, clogging our justice system with BS cases and prompting over-zealous, tail wagging prosecutors to over-charge, elevate misdemeanors to felonies & plea bargain as many cases as they can by scaring defendents with some ungodly, hyped up amount of prison time, which doesn't fit the crime.<br /><br />For those who think everyone doing time is a "violent repeat felon", understand this: If you've never been in trouble in your life, someone calls your mother or child a bi****h, you get in a fight and you break their nose, you now have your 1st strike (assault w/great bodily injury). Now read on what happens to the rest of YOUR life, aside from the discrimination you receive in trying to find a job, housing & a way to eat FOREVER in CA, as we don't have a "washout period" like the "sane" states.<br /><br />Second Strike: Penal Code Section 667 (b)-(i), specifically (e)(1), indicates a<br />defendant who has ONE prior serious or violent felony (ex. breaking someone's nose in a fight) conviction that has been pled and proven in court and who is convicted of ANY new offense (misdemeanor elevated to a felony, non-violent felonies, it doesn't matter!) results in the new term being DOUBLED. It does NOT matter if the new offense is serious or violent as it is the prior serious/violent offense that causes the new term to be doubled. Not to mention our stupid sentencing structure gives people triple the time by the unjust "sentence enhancements" (ex. 3yrs for the crime itself & 10yrs for the enhancement). These persons are referred to as Second Strikers.<br /><br />After that we know writing a bad check, stealing a candy bar and ALL petty offenses will result in a 3rd strike, equaling a life sentence in prison. I can certainly think of better ways to spend MY tax payer dollars besides lining our muti-billion dollar prison industry pockets for trivial BS cases. Give the murderers and child molesters life!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com