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"Three Strikes And You're Out" - College Essays

"Three Strikes And You're Out"

The most recent law to come about has been the “3 strikes and
you're out” law. It sounds so socially acceptable why wouldn't we want to
have it? If a person commits two misdemeanors they serve them as such.
However, should they commit a third it would be classified as a felony and
they would no longer serve their time at the county jail, rather the state
penitentiary. You hear this and say, “hey that's great…tougher laws,” but
when you strip away the figurative English and break it down you might
change your mind.
Let's start off by using a minor misdemeanor such as petty theft
for example. Petty theft means that a person stole something valued less
than $400. So let's say our little ...

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poor old lady. Well that's the big 3!
Under this new law, this crime would be tried as a misdemeanor but
would have s felonious sentence. Our buddy gets sent to 7 years at the
state penitentiary. While lodging at one of our nations finest resorts, our
sticky handed friend meets Bruno. After a painful greet and hello the two
become close personal friends. Bruno has this enemy. Another criminal who's
feelings got hurt when Bruno made a new friend. His name is Moose. Moose
begins to beat up our poor little crook something fierce. The guards do
nothing about it because, after all, they are a bunch of criminals. Bruno
and our severely bruised brother, having no other way of stopping Moose's
jealous attacks, kill him. Both spend a few months in solitary, get out,
but realize that Moose had friends they didn't know about. Thus the dynamic
duo are killed and our story ends. What does this mean you ask? What it
means is that the criminals in the state facilities make up their own breed
of ...

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Added: 8/6/2005 12:02:19 AM
Category: Legal Issues
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 441
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