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News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) reveals that the often-touted 'three-strikes and you're out' sentencing proposals, which mandate life sentences for anyone convicted of three violent felonies, would actually only have applied to 91 of the criminals involved in North Carolina's judicial system over a 20 year period; finds that calls for the plan are basically political in nature and without an understanding of how the system works, Feb. 24, 1994.