Sept. 22nd: Cal. 3-Strikes Project Announces Public Initiative to Amend 3-Strikes Law

At 1:00 p.m. on Sept. 22 at the Criminal Courts Building in Los Angeles, Valerie Monroe and Jan Tucker announced that the Cal. 3-Strikes Project had submitted a public initiative to the Attorney General's office that would amend the California 3-Strikes law as follows:

1. The law would not be applicable to nonviolent and non-serious offenses.
2. The law would not apply to juvenile adjudications.
3. The amendments would be applicable to everybody who has already been sentenced under the law and it would be applicable to both 2nd strikers (who received double their sentence) and 3-strikers (who received a minimum of 25 years-to-life).

	Jan Tucker and Valerie Monroe are the co-sponors of the 3-strikes initiative.
Tony Muhammad of the Nation of Islam and the Black Defense League also spoke in support of the initiative.
	The current Sec. of State, Bill Jones (R), had a press conference at 1:45 p.m. to discuss his opposition to any amendments to the 3-strikes law as put forth in the proposed inititiative.

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