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Criminal

Dec. 5, 2014

Los Angeles city attorney receives funds for Prop. 47 cases

The office will get over $400,000 to fill 15 positions to handle newly classified misdemeanor cases under the new law.


By Kibkabe Araya


Daily Journal Staff Writer


When voters approved Proposition 47 in November to reduce low-level felonies to misdemeanors, the Los Angeles city attorney and district attorney offices began scrambling to configure a transfer of thousands of felony cases that had become misdemeanor cases overnight.


The city council voted Wednesday to give the city attorney's office $437,582 to start the hiring process for 15 new positions to ...

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