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CA - California 'three strikes' sentence voided

View the article here 12/31/2008 SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- California's attorney general's office says it hasn't yet decided if it will appeal a ruling against a prison term imposed under the state's three-strikes law. A federal appeals court said a registered sex offender's 28-years-to-life sentence for failing to update his address amounted to a violation of constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment. "This is not a case where my client failed to register. He failed to update his address information," said Gia Kim, the attorney for inmate _____. The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday the ruling did not address the three-strikes law itself, but found that the sentence imposed on _____ in 2001 constituted cruel and unusual punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on January 27, 2009 (boomark / email).