Criminal
Jun. 25, 2020
OC DA wins 3rd-strike enhancement in hate crime appeal
“Everything about respondent’s crime and his record shouts for application of the three strikes law,” said the appellate ruling.
Criminal defendants often ask appellate courts to reduced sentences, but Orange County District Attorney Todd A. Spitzer turned the tables in a big way this week.
Spitzer's deputies convinced a panel of the 4th District Court of Appeal to allow a third-strike enhancement against a white man who chased a pregnant black woman and threatened to kill her unborn child.
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