Woodland cheese shoplifter gets 7 years 8 months in prison

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Source: Sacramento Bee

A Yolo County judge on Monday sentenced a man who walked out of a store with a package of cheese in his trousers to seven years and eight months in prison.

Prosecutors had originally sought a life sentence for Robert Ferguson under the state's "three strikes" law. They dropped that bid last month, saying a psychological report had convinced them that a life sentence wasn't warranted.

At Monday's hearing, Deputy District Attorney Clinton Parish urged Judge Thomas Warriner to consider at least one of Ferguson's prior strikes – one for burglary and another for assault with a deadly weapon – and to sentence him to a lengthy term.


Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/02/2575168/woodland-cheese-shoplifter-gets.html

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THE CHEESE HEAD CRIME.