Three Strikes and You’re Out The “Three Strikes and You’re Out” law is a law that was passed by California Voters in 1994. What this law basically means is that people who have been convicted of three or more serious felonies or violent crimes may end up being sentenced a longer amount of time in prison or even facing life in prison. Violent offenses include murder‚ robbery of a residence in which a deadly or dangerous weapon is used‚ rape and other sex offenses. Serious offenses include the same
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The great railroad strike of 1877 started on July 14 in Martinsburg‚ West Virginia‚ in response to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad cutting wages of workers for the third time in a year. This strike had a big impact because the striking workers wouldn’t allow trains‚ mainly freight trains to roll. They had one term to make this dilemma get dropped; drop the third wage cut. The events that lead up to the strike were simple‚ they had cut the pay outs three times‚ so no one’s gonna be happy. Let’s
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Three-strikes is a Mindless Response to Crime In 1983‚ a young man named Michael was brought before a Pennsylvania court on a charge of armed robbery: he stole $50 from a taxi driver using a toy gun. A few days later he was arrested and was subsequently convicted. Although the trial judge sentenced Michael to 6 months in prison and required that he repay the $50‚ the prosecutor demanded the 5 year minimum sentence required by state law. The trial judge ruled the mandatory sentencing law unconstitutional
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the dorms is regulated ineffectively‚ the issue is rooted from RA training and then manifests to communication between RAs and students. Although OU is a dry campus freshman students still drink in the dorms without fear of being caught. The alcohol strike policy is intended to deter students from drinking on campus but the policy is hardly ever strictly enforced unless a complaint of alcohol is made by another student. Saying OU is a dry campus is a joke in itself made to sound nice. The first person
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Summary Transport Economics Inhoud Inhoud 1 Chapter 3 3 3.1 definitions 3 3.2 determinants of demand 3 3.3 Peak problem in road transport 4 3.4 elasticity of demand 5 3.5 Market price 6 3.6 market welfare 6 3.7 9/11 and the effects on the market 7 3.8 The problem of rural demand 7 Chapter 4 7 4.1 Definitions 7 4.2 Classification of costs according to their nature 7 4.3 Classification of costs according to their scale 8 4.4 Other types of cost important in TEM 9 4.5 Classification
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Mr. Gundersen Government and Politics AP 29 September 2013 The Three Strikes Rule The relation of violent crimes and the idea of recidivism has always been something that has been taken into account in the legal system. As early as 1895 in the Gladstone Committee Report‚ habitual offenders have garnered attention in penology circles (Katkin 99). The idea of punishing recidivism is split among politicians‚ though‚ as many politicians who disagree argue that the result is too monetarily costly
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Oxygen Exchange and Transport Oxygen exchange or respiration takes place at a respiratory surface; a boundary between the external environment and the interior of the body. Gas exchange is the process by which oxygen and carbon dioxide (the respiratory gases) move in opposite directions across an organism’s respiratory membranes‚ between the air or water of the external environment and the body fluids of the internal environment. Oxygen is needed by cells to extract energy from organic molecules
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California residents felt at the time the “Three Strikes and you’re out Law‚” took effect in 1994. The purpose of the Three Strikes Law is to punish repeat violent crime offenders upon receiving their third conviction of any felony. Initially‚ if a person receives a serious or violent felony conviction‚ this is considered a first strike‚ subsequently‚ then the second serious or violent felony criminal charge that is received would be a second strike and the individual will serve double the time originally
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The Homestead Strike of 1892 By: Industrial Relations Homestead is located on the Monogahela River eight miles from Pittsburgh. In 1892 the town had a population of about 12‚000 people. In 1880 it had a population of about 600 people. The town evolved around the Carnegie mills. With out the steel mill the town would have little existence. The mill property covered 600 acres of the 600 acres 37 of that is covered with varies buildings. The mills facilities were lighted by electricity which
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http://articles.sfgate.com/2004-03-05/opinion/17416623_1_three-strikes-law-violent-crime-third-strike The purpose of the “three strike” law against offenders was originally to help reduce the number of criminals who were running around free but what it had come down to was costing tax payers more than what they had bargained for. More than 57% of offenders in California who are placed in prison for the “three strike” law were typically arrested for nonviolent offenses such as drug violations
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