Tag: Three Strikes
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Appeals court declines to overturn defendant’s ‘3 strikes’ sentence
Colorado’s second-highest court concluded on Thursday that a defendant was sentenced under the state’s “three strikes” law in a manner that did not comply with the U.S. Constitution, but the mistake did not require reversal. Known as the Habitual Criminal Act, Colorado’s law requires judges to impose three or four times the maximum sentence if a…
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Appeals court declines to open door to challenges of already-final convictions
The state Supreme Court did not enable convicted defendants to retroactively challenge evidence admitted at their trials when it scrapped a longstanding rule, the Court of Appeals concluded