Below is a link to a very interesting article about California’s harsh “three strikes” law and its perhaps unintended consequences. Seems that even some prosecutors feel that it goes too far. Florida has different sentencing structures, some of which have similarly unexpected outcomes from time to time. Defendants can find themselves in the unenviable situation of having to lobby the state attorney prosecuting them to make sure that charging decisions are made to avoid things like the Prison Releasee Reoffender Act, which requires that individuals who have been released from a Dep’t of Corrections facility within three years of committing an enumerated felony serve the statutory maximum, day for day.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/magazine/23
