As long as a violent offender committed unrelated crimes on separate occasions, each counts as a "strike" under Pennsylvania's three-strikes law even if the offender's plea consolidated two or more of ...

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The 1994 kidnap and murder of 12 year-old Polly Klaas was the last straw for voters, who overwhelmingly passed California's Three Strikes initiative. As the law was written, convicts can be sentenced ...

The California State Supreme Court ruled this month that prisoners serving time under the state’s three strikes law can seek a reduction of their sentences. For years, the Three Strikes Project has ...

The US Supreme Court today heard challenges to the toughest sentencing law in the nation. California-s landmark -Three Strikes- law, which is defended as part of the war on crime, has been attacked by ...

OPELOUSAS, La. (KLFY) — A Eunice man could face decades in prison following his conviction of several counts of theft from people’s cars, prosecutors said. Billy James Thomas, 49, of Eunice, was found ...

Judge Tom Dyer postponed a habeas corpus case in Yolo County Superior Court due to a lack of discovery and difficulty ...

Ian C. Irizarry, 55, was sentenced today to life in prison without parole under Washington's "Three Strikes" law, the Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office announced.