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Government

Mar. 12, 2014

Report: State prosecutors have divergent views on offender sentencing post-realignment

Professors at Stanford Law School and Santa Clara Law School surveyed prosecutors' offices across the state and found that they often disagreed on the length of sentences for so-called "realigned" offenders.


By Hamed Aleaziz


Daily Journal Staff Writer


California prosecutors have divergent views on the sentencing of felony offenders who have been transferred to counties since the Legislature enacted a realignment of the criminal justice system, according to a Stanford report released this week.


Robert Weisberg, a professor at Stanford Law School and David Ball, a professor at Santa Clara Law School, surveyed 20 prosecutors' offices across the ...

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