Government
Jan. 29, 2013
Counties make way through Prop. 36 process
Chief among their tasks is obtaining prison files for inmates eligible to be resentenced under the proposition. But with scant guidance from the statute itself, officials are in large part making up the process as they go along.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
It's been nearly three months since Proposition 36 passed in California, but district attorneys and public defenders in counties across the state have already hit the ground running.
Chief among their tasks is obtaining prison files for inmates eligible to be resentenced under the proposition, which reformed the state's Three Strikes law such that sentences of 25 years to life are invoked on...
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