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Third Strike on Three Strikes

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Red Baron

House Republican Leader Larry Cafero offered an amendment this afternoon on the floor of the House of Representatives that would create a tough Three Strikes law in Connecticut, requiring life in prison upon conviction for a third violent offense.
After Judiciary Committee co-chairman Michael Lawlor spoke in opposition to the amendment, House Majority Leader Christopher Donovan [...]

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