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Life Sentence for 0.03 grams of Meth

By Michael Romano

Yesterday, Marin Superior Court Judge Stephen Graham imposed a 25-to-life sentence for simple possession of 0.03 grams of methamphetamine under California?s Three Strikes law.  (People v. Foroutan, No. 114626A.)  The defendant has never committed a crime of violence and his prior strikes were residential burglaries, the most recent of which was from 1992.  Full disclosure:  Mr. Foroutan is represented by the Stanford Law School Criminal Defense Clinic, which provides free legal services to inmates serving three strikes sentence for non-violent offenses.  I am a supervising attorney at the clinic.  This blog ordinarily doesn?t publicize our own cases, but I?m obviously making an exception.   

Full post as published by Criminal Appeal on July 13, 2007 (boomark / email).