| Three Strikes | | | | - Holding of a hostage by a person confined |
| | | | in a state prison. |
| The Three Strikes law significantly increases | | | | |
| the prison sentences of persons convicted of | | | | - Attempt to commit a felony punishable by |
| felonies who have been previously convicted | | | | death or life imprisonment. |
| of a violent or serious felony, and limits | | | | |
| the ability of these offenders to receive a | | | | - Any felony in which the defendant |
| punishment other than a prison sentence. | | | | personally used a dangerous or deadly weapon |
| Violent and serious felonies are specifically | | | | selling, furnishing, administering, giving or |
| listed in state law. | | | | offering to sell, furnish administer or give |
| | | | to a minor, heroin, cocaine, phencyclidine |
| | | | (PCP), a methamphetamine-related drug, or a |
| | | | precursor of methamphetamine. |
| - Murder or involuntary manslaughter. | | | | |
| | | | - Any violation of subdivision (a) of Section |
| - Mayhem. | | | | 289 where the act is accomplished against the |
| | | | victim's will by force, violence, duress, |
| - Sodomy by force, violence, duress, menace | | | | menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful |
| or fear of immediate bodily injury on the | | | | bodily injury on the victim or another |
| victim or another person. | | | | person. |
| | | | |
| - Oral copulation by force, violence, duress, | | | | - Grand theft involving a firearm. |
| menace or fear of immediate bodily injury on | | | | |
| the victim or another person. | | | | - Any attempt to commit a crime listed in |
| | | | this subdivision other than an assault. |
| - Lewd or lascivious act on a child under the | | | | |
| age of 14 years. | | | | - Continuous sexual abuse of a child. |
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| - Any felony punishable by death or | | | | Violent felonies |
| imprisonment for life. | | | | |
| | | | - Murder or manslaughter. |
| - Any other felony in which the defendant | | | | |
| personally inflicts great bodily injury on | | | | - Mayhem. |
| any person or personally uses a firearm. | | | | |
| | | | - Rape by force, violence, duress, menace or |
| - Attempted murder. | | | | fear of immediate bodily injury on the victim |
| | | | or another person. |
| - Assault with intent to commit rape or | | | | |
| robbery. | | | | - Oral copulation by force, violence, duress, |
| | | | menace or fear of immediate bodily injury on |
| - Assault with a deadly weapon or instrument | | | | the victim or another person. |
| on a peace officer. | | | | |
| | | | - Lewd act on a child. |
| - Assault by a life prisoner on a non-inmate. | | | | |
| | | | - Any felony punishable by death or life |
| - Assault with a deadly weapon by an inmate. | | | | sentence. |
| | | | |
| - Arson. | | | | - Any felony resulting in great bodily injury |
| | | | or in which a firearm was used. |
| - Exploding a destructive device or any | | | | |
| explosive with intent to injure. | | | | - Robbery of an inhabited dwelling, vessel or |
| | | | trailer coach in which a deadly or dangerous |
| - Exploding a destructive device or any | | | | weapon was used. |
| explosive causing great bodily injury or | | | | |
| mayhem. | | | | - Arson that causes great bodily injury. |
| | | | |
| - Exploding a destructive device or any | | | | - Penetration by a foreign object. |
| explosive with intent to murder. | | | | |
| | | | - Attempted murder. |
| - Burglary of an inhabited dwelling, house or | | | | |
| trailer coach as defined by the Vehicle Code | | | | - Explosion with intent to commit murder. |
| or inhabited portion of any other building. | | | | |
| | | | - Out-of-state kidnapping transported to |
| - Robbery or bank robbery. | | | | California. |
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| - Kidnapping. | | | | - Continuous sexual abuse of a child. |
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