How have courts interpreted "three strikes" legislation?

This argument is without merit. In People v. Garcia (1999) 21 Cal.4th 1, 14, 87 Cal.Rptr.2d 114, 980 P.2d 829, in interpreting a section of the "Three Strikes" initiative, we stated that "For purposes of interpreting these statutes ... it matters not whether the drafters, voters or legislators consciously considered all the effects and interrelationships of the provisions they wrote and enacted. We must take the language ... as it was passed into law, and must, ... without doing violence to the language and spirit of the law, interpret it so as to harmonize and give effect to all its provisions." (Fn. omitted.)