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Law Students Help Free Three-Strike Offenders

By Walin & Klarich

A recent article in the Los Angeles Times discusses a clinic at Stanford Law School that focuses entirely on convicts who are serving extended sentences because of California?s Three Strikes Law. The students at this law clinic are devoting their time and effort to reversing what they view as miscarriages of justice under the California Law. Since September, the Stanford Criminal Defense Clinic, has persuaded judges to lessen the sentences of four prisoners, three of which have been released so far, having already served their reduced prison terms, which ranged from six to 10 years. Other innocence projects have existed in the past. They offer opportunities for those individuals who claim to be innocent of the crimes they are convicted of an opportunity to have an appeal heard in court...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on July 03, 2009 (boomark / email).