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Article: Post Office Robber Second Person Given Life Sentence Under Three-Strikes Law
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- Los Angeles Sentinel
- Article date:
- April 26, 2000
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Los Angeles Sentinel
04-26-2000
Post Office Robber Second Person Given Life Sentence Under Three-Strikes
Law
A 49-year-old Los Angeles resident was sentenced last week to life in
federal prison pursuant to the federal "three-strikes" law, U.S. Atty.
Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced.
Perry Scott Stevens becomes only the second person in the nation's largest
federal judicial district to receive a life sentence under the
three-strikes statute, which mandates a life sentence for defendants with
two or more prior serious violent felony convictions.
Stevens pleaded guilty in the Feb. 16, 1996 armed robbery of a post office
in Lynwood and in the March 20, 1996 attempted armed robbery of a post
office in ...
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