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"Law students help free three-strikes offenders"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this interesting Los Angeles Times article.  Here are excerpts: Stanford law clinic ... students are devoted to reversing what they view as miscarriages of justice under the three-strikes law.   Their work involves a new twist on a strategy employed by innocence projects nationwide in which students have helped overturn wrongful convictions and sparked debate over the death penalty. Rather than championing the innocent, the Stanford students are advocating for prisoners guilty of what they view as relatively minor offenses and raising the question of how much prison time is too much. The effort touches a nerve.  Fifteen years ago, California voters overwhelmingly approved the three-strikes sentencing law...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 13, 2009 (boomark / email).