Criminal
Sep. 1, 2004
Court Upholds Man's Third Strike
LOS ANGELES - Furnishing new ammunition for opponents fighting the state's controversial three-strikes law, a state appeals court has rejected a 24-year-old Hispanic man's challenge that his sentence of 25 years to life for unlawfully driving a vehicle is cruel and unusual punishment.




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