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: Underdog

Apprendi and safety valve sentencing.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

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Photo from website of U.S. District Court (W.D. MI). Imagine pleading guilty when facing a high risk of a three-strikes non-parolable life term in prison. Why enter such a guilty plea unless such an approach is one's only realistic hope not to die in prison, for instance where the prosecutor offers, in exchange for a guilty plea, to dismiss other pending criminal charges that are even more certain to result in life imprisonment either by themselves or by accumulation of counts?  Scott William Thompson unsuccessfully rolled the dice by entering such a guilty plea. He when he knew beforehand that the prosecution was seeking a three-strikes life sentence on his bank robbery guilty plea, due to his conceded prior two strikes for qualifying "serious violent felonies...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 10, 2009 (boomark / email).

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