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Ewing v. California

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The Three Strikes Law in California

Three strikes laws mean that someone who commits a third offense after committing two previous offenses gets a harsher punishment, harsher sentencing range on that third time. Abitual offender laws have been around in the U.S. for a long time. In fact, between 1993 and about 1998 or so, 23 states and the federal government adopted some form of three strikes and you're out laws.

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