California District Attorneys Associaton (CDAA)
Amicus Curiae
Grover D. Merritt, Counsel of RecordThe California District Attorneys Association represents more than 2,400 prosecutors in the State of California. Grover D. Merritt is the Lead Deputy District Attorney for the County of San Bernardino, California. He received his law degree in 1984 from Marquette University. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioner as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on June 17, 2002.Respondent’s punishment is a manifestation of California’s penological theory that recidivist felons should be punished, deterred, and incapacitated. Where an incorrigible recidivist felon like Andrade shuns rehabilitation, rejects the lessons of previous…
