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Will three strikes or other California sentencing issues become a hot political topic?

By Douglas A. Berman

I do not see too many huge sentencing stories emerging from yesterday's primary elections in a bunch of states.  But this report from the Los Angeles Times on California's Attorney General race notes the place that the state's three-strikes law has already played in the run up to that state's primary yesterday: Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley convincingly won the GOP primary for attorney general on Tuesday, giving Republicans a strong chance at capturing the state's top law enforcement job in the November contest. His San Francisco counterpart, Dist. Atty. Kamala Harris, appeared to overcome an aggressive ? and expensive ? challenge in the Democratic primary as she seeks to become the first woman, first Asian and first African American to serve as attorney general...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 09, 2010 (boomark / email).