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November 09, 2004
Prop 66 -- post election ha-ha's
Funny thing has happened at my work the past week. We've received several motions requesting a courtdate for resentencing due to "the passage of Proposition 66 by the citizens of California on Nov. 2."
The motions are getting passed about the office for shit and giggles. Seems the jailhouse lawyers (the one that landed on my desk was meticulously done by the inmate himself. One can't help but notice if the perp had put that much energy and thought into pursuing a regular career he wouldn't be doing 25 to life in state prison) had been reading the polls and wanting to be numero uno in line, just mailed these suckers in before the election.
Good god, I think several of us pulled some muscles with the belly laughing.
On a bit more serious note, if you're at all interested in the close to libelous misinformation from the pro-Prop 66 side, take a quick peek at this fine fellow. Looking at the rap sheet, it really looks like he got shafted, correct?
Funny thing, one of MY attorneys was the prosecuter on this guys third strike and these idjits with their claim of "Verification available/done on this story" never contacted her or anyone else in the office about this story. The perp had victims all over the country. He was living large because his burglaries targeted people's information, which he then went and used to fraudulently purchase property, businesses, cars, homes, furniture, etc. Hell, he even kept an eye on a credit card processing center, rented a truck and forklift and stole the outdoor vault where the credit card carbons and other processing info was stored awaiting the destruction company. The four strikes listed on the page were the ones the prosecution decided to file on....there were over 15 years of numerous other felonies and strikeble felonies not on that list but are part of his record.
No one..certainly no one I know, would object to making the 3rd strike the same as the 1st and 2nd. But Prop 66 didn't do that. Thank god the citizens of CA finally realized that, too.
Posted by Darleen at November 9, 2004 10:28 PM