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PEOPLE v. RUIZ

Docket No. F022708.

44 Cal.App.4th 1653 (1996)

52 Cal. Rptr.2d 561

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. REYES SOTELO RUIZ, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

April 30, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Victor J. Morse, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, Roger E. Venturi and Anthony L. Dicce, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]

OPINION

DIBIASO, J.

In part, we hold that the legislative version of the "Three Strikes" law is not an invalid modification of Proposition 7 (the Briggs Initiative, adopted by the electorate in 1978), and did not result in the infliction of cruel and unusual punishment upon appellant as a "second striker...

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