California Lawmaker Adding to Growing Calls for an End to ‘Three Strikes’ Laws for Teens [imprintnews.org]

Porter Jennings-McGarity 1/27/222:16 PM

By Kelly Davis, Photo: Adriana Heldiz, The Imprint, January 10, 2022

D’Andre Brooks landed his first strike at 16.

It was 2002, and friends he was with at a San Diego trolley station decided to rob two people. Brooks said he didn’t participate. But according to court records, prosecutors argued that simply by being there, he’d aided in the robbery.

At the time, the offer of probation and a single strike in exchange for a guilty plea seemed like his best option — the teenager just wanted to get out of juvenile hall.

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