Eight years in prison for stealing cheese

By Nick Allen in Los Angeles Published: 8:01PM GMT 03 March 2010

Robert Ferguson was condemned underneath a "three strikes and you"re out" process in California where prosecutors had creatively sought a hold up sentence.

The cheese, stolen from a emporium in Woodland, California, was value $3.99 (�2.64).

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Ferguson is a career rapist with thirteen before philosophy and had outlayed twenty-two of the prior twenty-seven years in jail.

Local press pronounced Ferguson was in his 50s and had a rapist story dating behind 35 years.

His lawyer, Monica Brushia, pronounced he was bipolar and had worry determining manic urges to steal, according to the Sacramento Bee.

She pronounced his ultimate crime was "petty" and it was only "a pack of cheese."

California has the majority difficult three-strike laws. Unlike alternative states, it says third-time felons can be put afar for hold up for last offences together with sparse burglary and shoplifting.

A third-strike self-assurance carries a judgment of twenty-five years to life.

Ferguson transient that since of a psychiatrist"s report.

The three-strike complement has been criticised by a little for contributing to jail overcrowding in the state.