Riverside County Three Strikes Crimes Attorneys

The Riverside County criminal defense lawyers at Wallin & Klarich defend clients in three strikes cases, which have the potential to result in lifetime imprisonment for accused offenders. The California Three Strikes Law is an unjust and oppressive legal program that can result in life in prison for even relatively minor offenses such as grand theft or drug offenses.

California's Three Strikes Law was passed on March 7, 1994. As of September 2003, in less than 10 years, California had incarcerated 42,445 people under the Three Strikes Law. The law is named after the strikes in baseball (Three strikes you're out). This law was intended to put hardcore criminals in prison for 25 years to life and to reduce recidivism. But that is not how it has worked out. On the contrary, individuals who have committed minor crimes (such as stealing a slice of pizza) have ended up going to prison for life because of their prior felony convictions.

Our Riverside County Three Strikes defense attorneys at Wallin & Klarich focus on reducing our clients' charges to misdemeanors or non-strike felonies. Our goal is to stop the Three Strikes process before it can damage your record. If you have been charged with a strikeable felony, it is vital that you seek the advise of an experienced criminal defense law firm such as Wallin & Klarich before entering a guilty plea. It is critical that your Riverside County strike crime defense lawyer has significant experience defending Three Strikes cases. At Wallin & Klarich, our team of highly skilled Riverside County criminal defense lawyers has been successfully handling Three Strikes cases for many years.

Our focus in every Three Strikes case is on the new case and to do everything possible to make sure that our client is not found guilty. However, if that does not happen, we file a motion to ask the court to "strike a prior strike" for the purposes of sentencing. This means that we ask the judge, based on the totality of the circumstances, not to impose a Three Strikes sentence. This can have a significant impact on your case and can reduce a life sentence to a much lower sentence. The court, on a case by case basis, must consider whether the defendant's crime was in line with "the spirit of the Three Strikes law." If you or a loved one are facing charges in Riverside County that may result in a strike conviction, please contact Wallin & Klarich without delay for a free consultation and evaluation of your case.