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Son of Sam II Law Enacted in California
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2002, page 26
Son Of Sam II Law Enacted in California
Filed under:
Victims,
Limitations,
Money/Property,
Royalties,
State Legislation.
Location:
California.
In a legislative move designed to circumvent a recent California Supreme Court ruling holding that California's "Son of Sam" law (which prohibited prisoners from profiting from their crime stories) was unconstitutional, Senate Bill 1887 was passed and signed into law effective September ...
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