Opinion ID: 2581358
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Heading: Three Strikes

Text: Defendant argues that the multiple-murder special circumstance should have been dismissed because the three 1992 homicides with which he was charged were subject to the provisions of the three strikes law (§§ 667, 1170.12), adopted in 1994. That law, he contends, provides the exclusive means of punishing a person who is convicted of a felony and who has previously been convicted of certain specified felonies. We have in the past rejected this claim ( People v. Hughes (2002) 27 Cal.4th 287, 405-406, 116 Cal.Rptr.2d 401, 39 P.3d 432; People v. Alvarez (1996) 14 Cal.4th 155, 246-247, 58 Cal.Rptr.2d 385, 926 P.2d 365), and defendant offers no basis to reconsider that rejection.