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May 11, 2007
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor - Counting a mentally ill man's robbery of a liquor store as a third strike shows an extraordinary abdication of responsibility by judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Mentally Ill Man's Liquor Theft
Shouldn't Count as Third Strike
I read with mounting horror of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in Joshua v. Adams, 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 10757, which denied habeas relief to a paranoid schizophrenic alcoholic who was given 25 years to life for stealing $62 worth of liquor. "Dissent Rails at S...
Mentally Ill Man's Liquor Theft
Shouldn't Count as Third Strike
I read with mounting horror of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in Joshua v. Adams, 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 10757, which denied habeas relief to a paranoid schizophrenic alcoholic who was given 25 years to life for stealing $62 worth of liquor. "Dissent Rails at S...
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