These clickbait headlines rarely say anything about the multiple arrests and convictions that caused the 3-strike rule to come into effect. Like that bullshit headline last week about a kid being sent to prison for not doing her homework... she was on probation and didn't do a single piece of school work despite passing her classes being one of her probationary clauses.
Soooo.... What's the other 90% of the story?
These clickbait headlines rarely say anything about the multiple arrests and convictions that caused the 3-strike rule to come into effect. Like that bullshit headline last week about a kid being sent to prison for not doing her homework... she was on probation and didn't do a single piece of school work despite passing her classes being one of her probationary clauses.
3-strike rule is fucked though.
Unless they involve violence.
You get arrested for shoplifting slim jims on 3 different occasions and you deserve life in prison?
$30 worth of weed isn't a serious felony, so something is highly flawed here.
How the hell do you get a life sentence over 30$ of weed
When your lawyer is making a deal to get you out of something worse. A lot of these weed convictions are plea downs from worse crimes.
That said, I was in the USAF in the 80s and drug punishment was draconian, and I could see a stiff sentence being given for a little weed back then.
3 strike rules with zero tolerance (which is fucking stupid).
How to not get arrested: tip 1259 don’t sell marijuana