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Definition of three strikes in English: three strikesnoun US mass noun, usually as modifier Legislation which makes an offender's third felony punishable by life imprisonment or other severe sentence. we got a three strikes law here—three felonies and it's life Example sentencesExamples - Under a three strikes policy in Tasmania and Queensland - and in South Australia from next month - drivers nabbed for a third time lose their cars forever.
- California, which has the three strikes system, now spends more on its prison system than on education, say civil rights groups.
- I also oppose the three strikes law and all other rigid sentencing regimes.
- California has the toughest and most vigorously enforced three strikes law in the nation.
- The three strikes law is supposed to apply exclusively to violent criminals, and if it must stay on the books, it should still only apply to them.
- But the three strikes law is anything but narrowly tailored.
- The three strikes law made lying acceptable in some way and perhaps required her lie.
- The Supreme Court will rule on the three strikes law this term.
- It's hard to say whether it's a good or bad thing that the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the three strikes law.
- The current three strikes law has also hung in there as long as it has because there has been no detectable swing in public sentiment toward changing the law.
- California already locks up more three strikes offenders than the other states that have similar repeat offender laws on their books put together.
- But if there's a prisoner-rights issue that screams for redress, it's three strikes.
- I see amending the three strikes law as a step towards healing and reconciling families and communities.
- Most states with three strikes legislation confine it to serious violent crime.
- It is significant that the expression of public disapproval embodied in the Western Australian three strikes law is directed in practice so narrowly at youth offenders.
- They didn't vote to put nonviolent offenders in prison for life for stealing a slice of pizza or writing a bad check, but that's what the outcome of three strikes has been thus far.
- That makes him eligible for life in prison under California's three strikes law and the prosecutor in the case is asking the judge to impose that life sentence.
- The three strikes law should only apply exclusively to violent criminals.
- Almost 60 percent of California's three strikes cases involve nonviolent offenses in which the courts hand down sentences of 25 years to life.
- It's illegal, but there's no three strikes law.
Origin 1990s: from the phrase three strikes and you're out (with allusion to baseball). Definition of three strikes in US English: three strikesnoun US usually as modifier Legislation providing that an offender's third felony is punishable by life imprisonment or another severe sentence. we got a three strikes law here—three felonies and it's life Example sentencesExamples - It is significant that the expression of public disapproval embodied in the Western Australian three strikes law is directed in practice so narrowly at youth offenders.
- But the three strikes law is anything but narrowly tailored.
- Almost 60 percent of California's three strikes cases involve nonviolent offenses in which the courts hand down sentences of 25 years to life.
- California already locks up more three strikes offenders than the other states that have similar repeat offender laws on their books put together.
- That makes him eligible for life in prison under California's three strikes law and the prosecutor in the case is asking the judge to impose that life sentence.
- They didn't vote to put nonviolent offenders in prison for life for stealing a slice of pizza or writing a bad check, but that's what the outcome of three strikes has been thus far.
- The three strikes law should only apply exclusively to violent criminals.
- But if there's a prisoner-rights issue that screams for redress, it's three strikes.
- California, which has the three strikes system, now spends more on its prison system than on education, say civil rights groups.
- Under a three strikes policy in Tasmania and Queensland - and in South Australia from next month - drivers nabbed for a third time lose their cars forever.
- I also oppose the three strikes law and all other rigid sentencing regimes.
- The three strikes law is supposed to apply exclusively to violent criminals, and if it must stay on the books, it should still only apply to them.
- It's illegal, but there's no three strikes law.
- Most states with three strikes legislation confine it to serious violent crime.
- The three strikes law made lying acceptable in some way and perhaps required her lie.
- I see amending the three strikes law as a step towards healing and reconciling families and communities.
- California has the toughest and most vigorously enforced three strikes law in the nation.
- The current three strikes law has also hung in there as long as it has because there has been no detectable swing in public sentiment toward changing the law.
- The Supreme Court will rule on the three strikes law this term.
- It's hard to say whether it's a good or bad thing that the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the three strikes law.
Origin 1990s: from the phrase three strikes and you're out (with allusion to baseball). |