recent (beginning 1994) legislation enacted in several states (and proposed in many
others, as well as possible federal law) which makes life terms (or extremely long
terms without parole) mandatory for criminals who have been convicted of a third
felony (as in California) or of three felonies involving violence, rape, use of
a deadly weapon or molestation. The impetus for "three strikes, you're out" has
come from public outrage over murders, assaults, rapes and child molestations by
released ex-convicts with records of repeated violent crimes. Concern has been expressed
about the provisions in some of the bills which prohibit plea bargaining of any
charged felony down to a misdemeanor, deny any judicial discretion in sentencing
and do not distinguish between violent felonies and cases of non-violent crimes
which involve small amounts of money.
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