Tag: three-strikes laws
By Jeralyn, Section Crime Policy
Posted on Tue May 19, 2009 at 08:01:15 AM EST
Tags: three-strikes laws (all tags)
Posted on Tue May 19, 2009 at 08:01:15 AM EST
Tags: three-strikes laws (all tags)
In Alabama, Johnny Holly, Jr. has been freed after serving 30 years of a sentence of life without parole. His crime: he stole a toolbox. His sentence was the result of a three-strikes law.
How did he get free?
He is free today only because the Legislature changed the repeat-offender law early this decade.
The change in the law allowed for the possibility of parole. Even so, it took him several years to be resentenced and to get out.
Who helped him ? The prosecutor and a host of prison guards.[More...]
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