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three strikes, you're out

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three strikes, you're out n. recent (beginning 1994) legislation enacted in several states (and proposed in many others, as well as possible Federal law) which makes life-terms (or extremely long terms without parole) mandatory for criminals who have been convicted of a third felony (as in California) or of three felonies involving violence, rape, use of a deadly weapon, or molestation. The impetus for "three strikes, you're out" has come from public outrage over murders, assaults, rapes, and child molestations by released ex-convicts with records of repeated violent crimes. Concern has been expressed about the provisions in some of bills which prohibit "plea bargaining" of any charged felony down to a misdemeanor, which deny any judicial discretion in sentencing, and do not distinguish between violent felonies and cases of non-violent crimes which involve small amounts of money.



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