Proposed Reform to California's "Three Strikes"
LA's District Attorney Steve Cooley threw his support to the effort to reform California's "Three Strikes" rule. The current law calls for a mandatory life-sentence when the third offense is a felony offense. The proposed reform would make only violent crimes count as the third strike. This has large consequences as many people have gotten life sentences for felony drug charges as a third stike. The reform was proposed before, but never passed because of the thousands of re-sentencing hearings that it would cause.