California three-strikes law gobbling up jurors

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Los Angeles County suffers from a severe shortage of jurors in the wake of a three-strikes law that mandates a life sentence for a third felony. Defendants are more willing to risk a jury trial rather than move toward a life sentence, and a special rule gives each side 20 peremptory strikes in a life-sentence case rather than the normal 10, meaning more potential jurors are needed for voir dire. Presiding Judge Gary Klausner is pursuing a 10-point plan to make jury service more attractive and avoiding it harder.

Analysis, Management, Supply and demand, Jury members, Mandatory sentences, Determinate sentences, California. Superior Court (Los Angeles County)

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Going gangbusters; prosecutors fight gangs with injunctions banning conduct such as using beepers and applying graffiti

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California prosecutors have started to combat youth gangs by obtaining injunctions barring their activities, and some observers have questioned the constitutionality of such measures. Where such injunctions have been struck down they have been called too broad and impinging on free speech. The California Supreme Court will soon consider such an injunction in People v. Acuna, where the measure was used against San Jose gangs.

Prevention, Juvenile delinquency, Gangs

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