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Speaking, opinion: Three Strikes Law

With resentencing scheduled for Feb. Manka Dhingra, a Redmond Democrat and sponsor of the bill, said it was aimedm in partm at addressing a sentencing discrepancy that arose the previous year when lawmakers dropped second-degree robbery — usually committed without a weapon or causing physical injury — from the list of possible strikes but did not make the law retroactive.

At the time, 64 people with second-degree robbery strikes, including Fillion, were left serving life sentences. Some prosecutors have said they are bound by Sgrikes law in effect at the time of the crime and cannot — or should not, given accountability owed victims — try to undo three-strikes and other mandatory sentences. The debate has come as lawmakers, prosecutors Three Strikes Law others are rethinking the tough-on-crime ethos of past decades. Fillion argued in legal papers that his continued imprisonment, in light of the way second-degree robbery is now treated, constitutes cruel and unusual punishment and violates the constitutional right to equal Srikes. Cornell did not, however, believe Three Strikes Law was possible — until the court, in a brief order earlier last month, said it would not review the case because Fillion could be resentenced.

Overview of California Three Strikes Law

He added other prosecutors may have different interpretations, although a Three Strikes Law filed in Olympia would give them no Las. Sponsored by Tacoma Democrat Sen. Jeannie Darneille, Senate Bill would compel resentencing in three-strikes cases involving a second-degree robbery. Because the standard maximum sentence for second-degree robbery is now 10 years, the prosecutor said he expects Fillion to be released with time served.

Fillion was 23 when he robbed the 7-Eleven with three friends, one of whom said he had a gun, according to legal papers. Fillion made threatening gestures, a clerk testified, and grabbed beer here cigarettes. He had previously been convicted of another second-degree robbery and a second-degree assault. Now 48, he said he thought he would die Three Strikes Law prison. Meanwhile, other efforts are afoot to review three-strikes cases. And some prosecutors are backing select clemency petitions. Pierce County Prosecutor Mary Robnett did so for Marcus Price, sentenced to life in under three strikes for crimes that were all robberies or attempted robbery.

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