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Show Page A12 THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HaikTheHerald.com), Provo, Utah, Wednesday, November 6, 2002 debates tlhiireestrillies Legality of California sentencing; in question es Haas. The Polly law has been credited with lowering crime in California, and state officials said it gets career criminals off the streets. "There comes a point when the state has a right to say enough is enough Douglas Danzig, a deputy attorney general in California, told justices. About 350 inmates have received life terms for petty s offenses under the law, officials said. Jus- - - es - three-strik- " M' victions for similar behavior and his trial is scheduled for I Associated Press Writer Douglas Danzig, California deputy attorney general early next year. Ghana Orozco of San WASHINGTON Fred said her husband, tices are considering if the parole after 25 years. H6J Diego Tereso Zullo and dozens is serving 25 years could have gotten three and Luciano, punishment fits the crime. Caliof from others traveled for possessing $5 worth of Justice Antonin Scalia years had prosecutors not fornia on Tuesday to the heroin. law. said the crimes may be more applied the three-strikNearly in tears, the woman said if Michael O'Neill, a member Supreme Court in hopes of serious than they appear to the justices don't overturn be because1 of the potential of the US. Sentencing Com- telling their sob story to anyto listen. ji the law, she won't be alive to for violence: mission, which sets federal body willing Their loved ones already see her husband a free man. But Justice John Paul sentencing policy, said the are serving or could face life "He had a child that was 3 Stevens questioned if states two cases are sympathetic. (i;,!-could also give long prison "The facts of these cases sentences under Califorwhen he went in," she said. law, "We were married only three sentences , to people who are easy from public policy nia's three-strikwhich the nation's produces '.'! months before he went in." traffic repeatedly break standpoint A father stealing for Her husband, a heroin laws, because of public safety videos for his kids? You don't harshest penalties offenders. .concerns. addict, must spend at least get better than that," said repeat An hour before the jus- 25 Some court members O'Neill, who also teaches law years in prison for the seemed unsure how to hanat George Mason University. tices were to hear two cases drug charge because he had two prior felony residential dle the cases, "It's like stealing a loaf of charging that California's law produces unconstitu"We cannot convert this bread to feed his family." burglary convictions that 1 court into a sentencing comBut the conservative tionally cruel and unusual triggered the law. -- . Passed in 1994 with 72 mission," noted Justice Supreme Court is expected punishments, Fred Zullo mentally ill son, percent voter approval, the Stephen Breyer, who also to be reluctant about inter- said hisfaces f 4k a law requires a said the crimes seemed fering with states' rights to Philip, for making terrorist threats. minor. set their own punishments. term for any felony comV"Mfc&&atS"U7 "It's taken a bad toll on mitted by someone already Leandro Andrade, a heroNorthwestern University Help promote literacy in addict, had previous bur- law professor Ronald Allen our family," Fred Zullo said convicted of two felonies in our schools! glary convictions when he said it would be difficult for outside the court. "We're such as rape, murder, robwas caught shoplifting nine the court to spell out when a hoping the court overturns bery, burglary or certain Here's this law." other crimes. videotapes, including "Snow sentence is too harsh. Call The Daily Herald at 3 03 and tefl The Zullos said their son A ruling is not expected White" and "Cinderella," The law also requires the customer service representative when e from Kmart. Under his until next year. The court suffers from these convicts to serve their you will be away on vacation. disorder, and when full sentence before being sentence, hell could narrowly address the that your undelivered newspabe at least 87 when he gets way the law is applied in he called Ventura County eligible for parole a factor 2. Request pers be donated to a local school out of prison. that has swelled the ranks California, or it could look police three times threatenGary Ewing, who tried to more broadly at how states ing to kill officers, he was inside the state's prisons, 3. We will automatically stop delivery while you are away and resume delivery autosteal three $400 golf clubs, may use similar laws to win actually trying to commit where more than 7,100 matically when you return home. The sentenced to was life in very long prison terms for suicide by a gunshot from inmates are serving e undelivered papers go to local schools the of with crimes. He two has minor con sentences. police. possibility prison, relatively prior during the current or coming school year. By DAVID KRAVETS - Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The Supreme Court struggled Tuesday over the constitutionality of a California sentencing law that put a man who shoplifted children's videocassettes in prison until 2046 and gave another man a life sentence for taking three golf clubs. Their sentences are due to California's law, which has been challenged as cruel and unusual punishment. The law requires tough sentences for repeat offenders. "No other state in the country would impose a punishment like this," said Erwin Chemerinsky, the attorney for the man who stole $153 worth of videotapes. The law was passed in 1994 after voters endorsed tougher sentences amid public furor over the kidnapping and murder of Families plead for loved ones "There comes a point when the state has a right to say enough is enough." By GINA HOLLAND ! to . es n't . - fir i' how-- . 75-- 5 1 . 1 obsessive-compulsiv- three-strik- es third-strik- r , 1 three-strike- - THE DMLY HERALD 1555 North Freedom Boulevard P.O. Box 717, Provo, Utah 84603-071- 7 www.HarkTheHeralLc0m Classified Advertising Retail Advertises Subscriptions ind deliver) service Newsroom For Departments not listed above FAX dhnen heraldeitra.com USPS Published ) (ISSN: mornings. Sundav through Saturday, by Pulitzer Newspapers. Inc.. I;V)5 North Freedom Boulevard, Provo. Utah 84604. Periodicals postage paid at Provo. Utah. POSTM ASTF.Rf Send address changes to: The Dailv Herald. P.O. Box 717. Provo. . Utah84nO.)-07l7- Established August 1873. 1. 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