How has the court interpreted the Three Strikes law in sentencing a self-described repeat offender with 12 robbery convictions?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from People v. Sepulveda, B289564 (Cal. App. 2019):

A repeat criminal falls outside the spirit of the Three Strikes law only in extraordinary circumstances. (People v. Carmony (2004) 33 Cal.5th 367, 378.) The trial court's decision was not so irrational or arbitrary that no reasonable person could possibly agree. (Id. at p. 377.) The court reasonably concluded a self-described repeat offender with 12 robbery convictions was within the spirit of the Three Strikes law. We find no abuse of discretion.

Sepulveda cannot prevail by claiming his sentence is cruel and unusual punishment.

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