Ex-OC sheriff gets 5 1/2 years in prison

Should have been longer. However, I am sure they are reserving the extra cell space for drug users. What a joke!!! Many people arrested on non-violent drug charges get more time than this. In fact, three strikes and your out puts you in JAIL FOREVER.

What does the 3 strikes law have to do with this case? People eligible for the 3 strikes law deserve every minute of their 25 to life sentence. Sheriff Corona deserves his sentence. You are obviously a pro-drug legalization person but you can't equate these two cases. By the way, almost no drug "users" get this type of sentence, except the 3 strikers, and very few drug dealers get this type of sentence.

It could have been 70 years in prison but this scum bag got lucky and only convicted on one felony....and still thinks its too harsh !!! Carona is also still free until July so he can "watch his son graduate " WTF,enjoy your freedom for now Carona.

Current or ex-cops always get off easy, while any of us "regular Joes" would have been broken off more time for a lesser crime. Good or bad, the "system" always looks after their own. Thats my opinion.

I heard that liberal Federal prosecutors in the past few years were going after local politicians who the NRA supported. Carona allowed ordinary citizens to have concealed firearms permits in Orange County if they didn't have a record and the government may have set him up. Keep in mind he was aquited of all the charges he was originally charged with. Their game is to falsely charge someone then try to catch them in a lie and charge them with perjury, in this case it was jury tapering after he was arrested.

drug offenders dont have any right to wine ive seen time and time again them get off with prop 36 you really have to try and go to jail for drugs these days and three strikes are used against violent offenders in most cases not drug users corona should have got what any of us would have remandided to custody and lead away

You're absolutely right Hmmmmm. Obvioulsly Lo9an doesn't understand the three strikes law. That law doesn't even affect a drug dealer or drug user for drug offenses in most cases. The strikes don't come into the picture unless they already had a prior strike for a crime involving violence or the potential for violence because a gun, knife or other type of weapon was involved. Only then can a strike be added because of a lesser offense.
Even then the three strikes won't put someone away forever or for life unless they happen to be unlucky enough to die in prison. The three strikes gives them a sentenence of 27 years to life, but with possibility of parole no sooner than 21 years. So a 25 year old could be out while he was still in his 40"s if he behaves himself. Hardly what I would call "Life".