After his 18-year-old daughter was murdered in 1992, Mike Reynolds channeled his grief into activism, embarking on a personal crusade to lock up repeat offenders like the one who took his daughter’s life with a strict and contentious sentencing law.
Two years later, amid a surge of concern over violent crime and high-profile killings, he helped secure the passage of California’s three-strikes law, one of the nation’s toughest sentencing measures. The 1994 law meant that people with a serious or violent felony conviction would serve twice the usual sentence for their second felony conviction, and then sentences of 25 years to life for their third.
As Mr. Reynolds told it, he was just an “average Joe,” with little interest in politics or policymaking before his daughter’s murder. He was a professional photographer — he took pictures at more than 4,000 weddings, according to his family — and spent his free time cooking and working on engineering and salvage projects, which included restoring vintage cash registers and barber chairs.
Convinced that the best way to protect future victims was to take recidivists off the street, Mr. Reynolds began crafting a set of strict sentencing standards, inspired in part by a three-strike proposal that was being debated in Washington state at the time. He invited lawyers, judges and state lawmakers to discuss criminal justice issues in his backyard; met with politicians including Gov.
In a phone interview, Domanick added that Mr. Reynolds “was a shrewd, tenacious guy” who was especially skilled at garnering support for his cause through appearances on talk-radio shows. “He knew how to tell a story, and he understood how to make an emotional impact.”Mr.
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