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California's three-strikes law and its 2010 race for state attorney general

By Douglas A. Berman

Thanks to the always great Prison Law Blog, I just saw this interesting article from The Economist, which is headlined "Cooley's law: A Republican district attorney seeks to make three-strikes more humane." Here are excerpts: The current [Los Angeles DA], Steve Cooley, has other ideas about Three Strikes, which he values as a ?powerful recidivist tool? but also considers ?draconian?.  Mr Cooley has become the first DA in California to have a written policy not to invoke the three-strikes law when neither the current crime nor the previous strikes are violent or serious. His approach is especially noteworthy because Mr Cooley is also the Republican candidate for attorney-general of the whole state.  As a conservative, he need not be as paranoid as his Democratic rival about being called soft on crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 30, 2010 (boomark / email).