3-Strike Stories: RICHARD GUTIERREZ
2/17/98
RICHARD GUTIERREZ , D-35968
(aka William C. Ochoa)
CSP-SAC-B6-226
P.O. BOX 290066
RPRESA, CA. 95671-0066
On my behalf: William Cruz Ochoa, People v. Ochoa. 2 crim B106184. I have been
sentences to Three Hundred and twenty-six years to life, for Welfare Fraud, under the
Three Strike Laws; my strikes, crimes they that convicted me of happen in the years of
1976, 1980, 1984. They sentenced me to thirteen consecutive counts of welfare fraud. I was
sentence in Los Angeles County, City of Los Angeles on 9/20/96 at The Criminal Courts
Building on Temple St.
My case was appealed and denied in the Appeals and Supreme Courts. All my prior crimes
have been drug related, and crimes were done to support a Heroin habit.
Now my only recourse is to file a WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS in the Federal
Courts. Even the staff members here are shocked too here of my sentence, and are not happy
with the courts in my case.
I am fifty-four years of age, so even the deal, the District Attorney offered me of
twenty-five years to life, was a Death Sentence.
Please send me what information that might help me and people like me, with nonviolent
crimes . . . I will keep this letter short, waiting on a reply. I will be glad to tell my
story and answer any questions you may have. I will appreciate whatever you can do; and
thank-you.
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Date last modified: 3/18/98.