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Join the live audience of the award-winning National Public Radio show, "Justice Talking."
Join the live audience of the award-winning National Public Radio show, "Justice Talking." For tickets, sign up at www.justicetalking.org or call Erin Mooney at 215-898-7757.
Monday, September 30, 2002 7:30 p.m. in the moot courtroom at the USC School of Law, 699 Exposition Boulevard.
Three Strikes Laws
The ACLU's Mark Rosenbaum will debate former California Attorney General Dan Lungren.
California’s passage of a “three strikes ” law in 1993, giving an automatic 25 years to life sentence for third time felons, began a wave of legislation passed in at least 22 other states and by the federal government. Proponents call “three strikes” a significant deterrent and credit the law for keeping career criminals behind bars. Detractors counter that one-size-fits-all justice unfairly results in life sentences for people convicted of petty offenses. Limiting the discretion of so-called “lenient” judges, they say, may play well politically, but is no way to dispense justice.
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