dammn dude, even posted your own bust, good luck with everything
curious how american law works? or texan law.....u just paid to get outta jail, no court dates, nothin?
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Between 1993 and 1995, 26 states and the federal government passed "three strikes" laws in response to public outrage over such cases as the 1993 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas by a paroled repeat offender.
Under the federal Three Strikes rule, now codified at 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c), the defendant receives mandatory life imprisonment if he or she:
- Is convicted in federal court of a serious violent felony; and
- Has two or more prior convictions in federal or state courts, where at least one of which is a serious violent felony. The other prior offense may be a serious drug offense.
Under the statute, a serious violent felony includes murder, manslaughter, sex offenses, kidnapping, robbery, and any offense punishable by 10 years or more which includes as an element the use of force or that, by its nature, involves a significant risk of force. The statute also enumerates certain non-qualifying felonies, including unarmed robbery offenses and arsons that posed no threat to human life.
Unlike the federal laws, the three-strikes laws vary by quite a bit from state to state. However, under all federal and state three-strikes law
if someone is convicted of a crime three times, there is no judiciary discretion in sentencing these repeat offenders. Judicial discretion means that the judge decides the length and severity of the sentence for the convicted defendant based on whatever criteria he or she considers relevant (like, severity of the crime, the defendants character, social ties, etc). Instead, regardless of any extenuating circumstances, and regardless of whether the judge believes the criminal can be rehabilitated, the criminal must go to jail for life without the possibility of parole.
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He should, of course, be contacting a lawyer familiar with Three Strikes cases to determine if there are any mitigating factors in this case...
http://www.lawinfo.com/fuseaction/Client.lawarea/categoryid/139
If the lawyer doesn't see any mitigating factors ... THEN he'd be best off taking as long as a vacation as possible either in another country or under a false name out in the boondocks without ever coming to town. 'Cuz if they ever caught up to him - the vacation would be over.
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