“I came here on vacation, I’m leaving on probation. They said I ‘fit the description’.”

“I was over in Redwood city selling Street Sheet. In a few hours I could make a couple hundred bucks. This particular time a lady gave me some groceries, said she couldn’t give me no cash. Then some guy gave me a $100 bill for a paper and I was gonna go get his change. I told him to meet me at Safeway, there are two Safeway’s in that area, he must have gone to the wrong Safeway. The next day the police come and start talking bout a paper and a $100 bill. They hit me for theft. It’s on the borderline between a felony and a misdemeanor depending on how much money it is. This was $100 so it shoulda been a lesser charge. At jury trial they amended my charges from grand theft larceny of a person to 2nd degree robbery. That was my 3rd strike. I got 14 years.”