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.
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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