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| | Online NewsHour: Overturning the California three strike law -- June 21, 1996 | PBS |
 | | STATE REP. CURT PRINGLE: Well, I think the judge has pointed very clearly that when you have 1500 people convicted to a third strike since 1994, another 15,000 that have been convicted to a second strike in California, that all of those cases would be up potentially for review. |
 | | STATE REP. CURT PRINGLE: And now they've ruled, and you can--we need to proceed either with a statutory change to modify that discretion, or move to a constitutional change as "three strikes" was a constitutional amendment in the first place. |
 | | STATE REP. CURT PRINGLE: Well, also within this initiative, it allows for modifications of the law, itself, of modifications by 2/3 vote of the legislature, and unfortunately by the judicial activism of the Supreme Court, that too has been challenged, and that is a concern I have. |
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