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August 17, 2010

Judge Orders Release of Californian Jailed Under Three Strikes
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In California, a state judge has ordered the release of a man who was
sentenced to twenty-five years to life in prison after trying to
forcibly enter a church soup kitchen thirteen years ago because he was
hungry. Gregory Taylor had been sentenced under the state’s
controversial three-strikes law. Taylor’s release came in part due to
efforts by students working on the Three Strikes Project at the Criminal
Defense Clinic at Stanford Law School.