July 4, 2011
Three Strikes changes possible
The luckiest woman in California may not be the Alameda secretary who recently won $93 million in the lottery, or the Marin woman who survived a Maui shark attack.
By some accounts, she's Kelly Turner, a 42-year-old former thief once doomed by the state's tough Three Strikes Law to spend 25 years to life in state prison for writing a bad check for $146.16. Retired Santa Clara County Judge LaDoris Cordell, now San Jose's independent police auditor, got the courts to release her after Turner spent 13 years locked up. She's believed to be the only female "third-striker" ever to get out early.
"She's turned her life around," Cordell said...
LINK - ContraCostaTimes.com
