[alex_young]

Old news at this point, but there are probably plenty of people serving life for small theft in CA on the old law:

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Stealing-one-slice-of-pi...

[rayiner]

California used to invoke the three strikes law where the first two crimes were serious felonies, and the third was anything. But not three misdemeanors.

[jmalicki]

It was still felony petty theft... how stealing a pizza is a felony is messed up, but it was still a felony.