Source: Maria Dillon / AP / The Huffington Post
Los Angeles — After 13 years behind bars for trying to break in to a church kitchen to find something to eat, a man who became an example of the harsh sentences allowed by California’s three-strikes law has been ordered released from prison.
A Superior Court judge amended Gregory Taylor’s sentence to eight years already served and the 47-year-old, who was sentenced in 1997 to 25 years to life, will be a free man in a few days.
Taylor was arrested in July 1997 while trying to get into the kitchen of St. Joseph’s Church in downtown Los Angeles. He told officers that he was hungry.
At Taylor’s original sentencing, Rev. Alan McCoy, Pastor of St. Joseph’s Church, described him as a peaceful man who was struggling with being homeless and drug addiction. Rev. McCoy also testified that Taylor was given food and was allowed to sleep at St. Joseph’s.
Taylor was convicted of third-strike burglary due to two robbery convictions in the 1980s, once for stealing a purse containing $10 and another time for trying to rob a man on the street. He didn’t use a weapon in either case, and no one was injured.
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