June 21, 2008
Suspect in Yolo deputy’s killing had avoided ‘3 strikes’ lockup
By last fall, the suspect in Sunday's shooting death of Yolo County Sheriff's Deputy Jose Antonio Diaz had accumulated a record of violence and two prior felony convictions.
So on Oct. 26, 2007, when Woodland police nabbed Marco Antonio Topete for possession of six-tenths of a gram of cocaine, authorities had a chance to put him away for a long time.
But police, prosecutors and parole officials never could quite close the loop on Topete. As a parolee with two serious and violent prior felony convictions, Topete, 35, was a candidate for a 25-years-to-life term under California's "three-strikes" law…
LINK - SacBee.com (The Sacramento Bee)
