Is there a legal 3 strike rule?

Question

What is the 3 strike rule? Is it 3 felonies? 3 charges? 3 convictions? or exactly what is it?

Answer 1

Under the federal Three Strikes rule, now codified at 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c), the defendant receives mandatory life imprisonment if he or she:

is convicted in federal court of a serious violent felony; and
has two or more prior convictions in federal or state courts, where at least one of which is a serious violent felony. The other prior offense may be a serious drug offense.
Under the statute, a serious violent felony includes murder, manslaughter, sex offenses, kidnapping, robbery, and any offense punishable by 10 years or more which includes as an element the use of force or that, by its nature, involves a significant risk of force. The statute also enumerates certain non-qualifying felonies, including unarmed robbery offenses and arsons that posed no threat to human life.

Unlike the federal laws, the three-strikes laws vary by quite a bit from state to state. However, under all federal and state three-strikes law if someone is convicted of a crime three times, there is no judiciary discretion in sentencing these repeat offenders. Judicial discretion means that the judge decides the length and severity of the sentence for the convicted defendant based on whatever criteria he or she considers relevant (like, severity of the crime, the defendant’s character, social ties, etc). Instead, regardless of any extenuating circumstances, and regardless of whether the judge believes the criminal can be rehabilitated, the criminal must go to jail for life without the possibility of parole.

Answer 2

3 felonies

Answer 3

Usually it means that if you have been convicted of three felonys you can be locked up in jail for the rest of your life.

Answer 4

Three felony convictions. It should be three violent felony convictions but it is not.

Answer 5

She could be arrested for outstading warrants if she does not pay her fines and seem in courtroom as requried. rules variety from state to state. you probably did no longer say what state she is in. the three strike rules are state rules, and agian variety from state to state. they only stick to to extreme criminal offences and not site visitors violations. Her driving record and her means to get a licence could already be screwed.

Answer 6

It's three missed swings at bat. Three strikes and you're out.

Answer 7

http://www.threestrikes.org/