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...given 25 years for stealing three golf clubs, while Andrade stole some children's videos). According to the California Department of Corrections, the state jails house about 7,000 inmates serving 25-to-life terms under this law - roughly 350 of them received their final strike for petty theft. In the Supreme Court dissenting opinion, Justice Stephen Breyer noted that in most states, 25 years to life is the sentence for first-degree murder, not shoplifting. The attorney general's office points to a 1996 California Supreme Court ruling that judges and attorneys can disregard priors in three strikes cases...
...thousand of these letters go out everyday, tempting anyone with an inbox to steal what does not belong to them. It doesn’t take more than a rudimentary understanding of morality to realize that this type of theft is wrong, but apparently the Secret Service—the branch of the Treasury Department responsible for investigating counterfeiting and fraud—doesn’t possess even this threshold understanding. Instead of punishing or condemning these gluttons, our government treats them like victims...
...Black cook in the Freshman Union said yesterday that he will file a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleging that the University Police racially discriminated against him in their investigation of a small money theft at the Union...
...Jack W. Morse, captain of the University Police, said yesterday that it was just "routine police work," and that although Wright did not commit the theft, a witness placed him at the scene of the theft...
...captain further explained that the police did a fair job of investigating the theft, and that Wright's presence at the scene made him a logical person to question. "I really don't see how he was singled out," he added