Реферат: Three Strikes You
’re Out Law Essay, Research Paper
We have all heard of the newest anti-crime
law, the “Three strikes and you?re out” law. It wasn?t easy getting this
law from the bill stage in Sacramento to the law stage, because it is not
a criminal friendly law. Meaning that this law?s purpose is to bring pain,
suffering, and intimidation to criminals. Our state government was basically
ran by the Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, now mayor of San Francisco. Brown
had the power to choose who sat on what committee in the house, and using
this he could terminate any bill he did not agree with. And with this attitude
it took a lot of patients and perseverance by the people trying to pass
this bill. But how did the bill become a bill? I will answer this question
with help of the Kimber Reynolds story.
Monday, June 29, 1992 in Fresno, California
a young woman was brutally murdered outside The Daily Planet, a restaurant
patronized by the local young people. The girl was visiting home for the
summer after being in the Los Angeles area attending school. Her and a
friend were getting into their car when two guys on a motorcycle rode up
next to Kimber Reynolds blocking her in, taking her purse, and beating
her into submission. The story made the 11 o?clock news only minutes after
her father had gone to bed. When police ran a background check on the two
suspected men, Joeseph Micheal Davis and Douglas Walker, both men had recently
been released on parole with multiple offenses on their records. Unfortunately
Davis was never brought in because when police were attempting to arrest
him he began firing, wounding unsuspecting police officers and ultimately
being killed. Douglas Walker was convicted of accessory to murder.
Mike Reynolds, Kimber?s father, went on
the radio on a local radio show called the Ray Appleton Show, KMJ 580.
There he would discuss his outrage about how he was sick of repeat offenders
being locked up only to be released after a fraction of the sentence was
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