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Arguing Three Strikes

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Arguing Three Strikes By EMILY BAZELON NY Times Magazine, Sunday May 23, 2010 One day last fall, Norman Williams sat drinking hot chocolate with his lawyer, Michael Romano, at a Peet?s coffee in Palo Alto, Calif. At an outdoor table, Williams began to talk about how he?d gone from serving a life sentence at Folsom State Prison to sitting there in the sun. ?After being shut down for so many years. I didn?t believe it,? he said of the judge?s decision to release him in April 2009. Williams, who is 46, was a homeless drug addict in 1997 when he was convicted of petty theft, for stealing a floor jack from a tow truck. It was the last step on his path to serving life. In 1982, Williams burglarized an apartment that was being fumigated: he was hapless enough to be robbed at gunpoint on his way out, and later he helped the police recover the stolen property...continue to full post

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