Pubdate: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 Source: Sacramento Bee (CA) Copyright: 1999 The Sacramento Bee Contact: P.O.Box 15779, Sacramento, CA 95852 Feedback: http://www.sacbee.com/about_us/sacbeemail.html Website: http://www.sacbee.com/ Forum: http://www.sacbee.com/voices/voices_forum.html CAPITOL DIGEST: 'THREE STRIKES' LAW STUDY IS VETOED Gov. Gray Davis on Sunday vetoed a bill that would have produced a fiscal study of California's "three strikes" sentencing law. In his veto of SB 873 by Sen. John Vasconcellos, D-San Jose, Davis said a study would be "unlikely to produce much, if any, useful information that is not already available." Davis supported Proposition 184 in 1994, but was criticized by his Republican opponent in last year's gubernatorial campaign because he had favored a weaker version of the measure. Davis' veto message noted that the impact of the law already has been well studied and that "the benefit of the three strikes law [ed note--for the prison industry, and of course for Davis's campaign coffers] will continue for years to come." - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D