premise: With the blessing of the family's sole survivor, Mr Lawlor pointed out that a three-strikes law would not have prevented the crime; that the state could not afford to build the prison places it would need if the ballot initiative passed; and that the whole idea was a distraction from the real failure, <hypo>.
hypothesis: <hypo> should be "which was that the parole board had not been handed a report that would have told its members that the man they were about to release early for good behaviour was considered extremely dangerous"