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Criminal

Jun. 10, 2016

Riverside says no to city attorney misdemeanor prosecutions

By a nearly two-thirds majority, Riverside voters rejected a ballot measure that would have allowed creation of a 10-lawyer misdemeanor prosecution division in the city attorney's office and removed that duty from the district attorney.

By Renee Flannery
Daily Journal Staff Writer

By a nearly two-thirds majority, Riverside voters rejected a ballot measure that would have allowed creation of a 10-lawyer misdemeanor prosecution division in the city attorney's office and removed that duty from the district attorney.

Measure A, a proposed change to the Riverside City Charter, garnered a little more than one third of the vote Tuesday, at 38 percent.<...

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