Court Grants Hearing for Third-Striker
A federal appeals court has granted a new hearing for a Southern California man serving 26 years to life in prison on a third-strike conviction for attempting to take the written portion of a driver’s license test for his illiterate cousin.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed Friday to take another look at the case of Santos Reyes, who was convicted of perjury for filling out an application in his cousin’s name at a Department of Motor Vehicles office in San Bernardino in September 1997. Reyes was sentenced in 1998.
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