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Originally posted by Superman
Yeah, the broadly supported "three strikes and you'r eout" initiative several years ago was a bad bad idea. It forced judges to lock up everyone who was caught selling weed twice. The people who knew what the voters did not know.....knew this day would come. Now we've got high-risk sex offenders (who like to rape and kill children) being freed early to make room for the greenbud entrepeneurs. As much as you guys seem to hate judges......I favor giving them some decisions to consider.
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Three Strikes legislation was a good idea written poorly. Most of us wanted at least the first two strikes to have been violent felonies, perhaps all three. The professional prison system employees got most of the laws written as "any three felonies" violent or not. That was and remains a bad idea.