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To: jlallen who wrote (77988)	4/27/2000 4:30:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) of 108807

Life Sentence Handed Down for Man Who Tore Off Furniture Tag An Anza, California judge today sentenced forty-four year-old Harold Dupplestein to life imprisonment for tearing off a mattress label. Mr. Dupplestein was sentenced under California's "three strikes and you're out" law. In 1996, Mr. Dupplestein was arrested for lighting a cigarette within 100 feet of a county building. He refused to pay the fine and was sentenced to 90 days in a State facility. Then, in 1998, Mr. Dupplestein was arrested for jaywalking. Again he refused to pay the fine and the judge, seeing Dupplestein had a "previous record," sentenced him to 180 days in prison. The final straw came last January when Dupplestein, attempting to read the fine print on the label of a mattress he intended to purchase, tore off the federally-protected consumer label in a misguided attempt to read the fine print. A Sheriff's Deputy who was also shopping in the store at the time happened to see Dupplestein commit the act and arrested Dupplestein on the spot. Mr. Dupplestein swore at the judge when the sentence was handed down. His lawyer vows to appeal, although a check of the California statutes reveals no appeal is possible.

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