Criminal
Aug. 16, 2016
Felony sentencing bill dies in Assembly
A bill attempting to bring California's felony sentencing laws into alignment with the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Cunningham v. California, 549 U.S. 270 (2007) died in the state Assembly's Appropriations committee on Thursday.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A bill attempting to bring California's felony sentencing laws into alignment with the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Cunningham v. California, 549 U.S. 270 (2007) died in the state Assembly's Appropriations committee on Thursday.
Cunningham held that California's sentencing laws, which place sentence-elevating fact-finding within a judge's province, violate a defenda...
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