Robert speaks with legal scholar John Shepherd Wiley, Jr. about the implications of the California Supreme Court decision to allow judges to dispense lighter sentences to third-time felons. Wiley, a professor of law at the UCLA Law School, considers this another loophole in the law, once previously reserved for prosecutors. he says it's a big step towards making the so-called "Three-strikes-and-you're-out" provision more optional.
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