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Реферат: Three Strikes You

to plead and prove all known prior felony convictions. Prior felony convictions

cannot be used as part of a plea-bargain.

Now that Mike had the proposal he had Bill

Jones submit it to the state legislature. Right away the bill was sent

to the Assembly Public Safety committee to be approved. This committee

is known as a killer of tough-on-crime bills, and consisted of eight members,

Paula Boland, Richard Rainey, Tom Umberg, Tom Bates, John Burton, Barbara

Lee, and committee chairman Robert Epple. Both Boland and Rainey were Republicans

while the rest were Democrats, and one vacant seat due to unknown reasons.

This committee was moderate or even moderately conservative, but because

Willie Brown had the power to choose members of the committee he chose

those people whom he thought would sway the vote towards a liberal direction,

which did not reflect the philosophy of the whole assembly. Mike also had

asked Fresno Assemblyman Jim Costa (D) to be a co-author of their proposal,

Mike wanted a bipartisan approach to the legislature. Meaning he wanted

to have both major parties represented in the proposal.

The men had two Republican and two Democratic

votes in their favor and only needed one more vote to pass, but unfortunately

they did not get that one vote because Brown set up the committee and didn?t

want a tough-on-crime bill. Berkeley Assemblyman John Burton gave Jones

an option to re-write their proposal the way he sees fit, or have the proposal

taken from the floor again and put to another vote. The problem with the

latter was that if it failed again there would never be another next time.

Jones and Mike Reynolds did neither of the two, their mission now was to

take it straight to the people of the state and find out what they think.

The two men did exactly that, paying for

publicity out of their own pockets. Eventually they did get corporate assistance