Criminal
Apr. 7, 2016
New bills to prevent wrongful conviction and incarceration
The California Senate Public Safety Committee passed with a 7–0 vote two bills to reduce wrongful conviction and incarceration.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
In a hearing Tuesday the California Senate Public Safety Committee passed with a 7--0 vote two bills that seek to reduce wrongful conviction and incarceration numbers in the state.
SB 1134, co-authored by Democratic Senator Mark Leno and Republican Joel Anderson, would revise California's toughest-in-the-nation standard for proving innocence based on newly discovered e...
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