Cross platform pollination, something i talked about by Rush Limbaugh the next day, i dont think he is a regular atlantic reader but things come to people through their screens and people talk to each other. Might be sitting behind a desk or in mid vegas in your car on the highway all day, not communicating with your fellow citizens, as this is a great sort of commission of voices. [inaudible conversations] were going to get started. I teach at u. N. L. V. Welcome to the 14th annual vegas valley book festival and those partners to provide funding for the largest celebration of the written and spoken in the industry did word. Of Beverly Rogers institute institute, the local chapter of aig a and also the Literary Committee of schumacher Logistics Committee and the volunteers and authors. Well hear of a panel freespeech the battleground i will introduce the panel and we will have a discussion then take it to the audience. First we have our professor from Computer Science at u. N. L. V. Cr
And prevent these massacres from happening. We cant just leave it to our professionals to deal with the problem of these kinds of horrible killings. We all have a part to play. One of the 14 People Killed in yesterdays shooting had roots in cape may county, and this afternoon were hearing from those who are remembering him. Nicolas was a long time member of the department of Public Health in San Bernardino San Bernardino. Before moving to california, he worked tor cape may countys health department. Former coworkers at the shore are saddened. Cant say how shocked we were, here we were, little cape may county, 98,000 people, and suddenly one of our own out there in california now that is murdered by these terrorists. Nicolas was 52 years old. Nbc 10 is taking a closer look at the issues being raised in the aftermath of the attack, including gun control and in the next ten minutes nbc 10s lauren mayk will have more on the potential backlash against people of the muslim faith. Family memb
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I think most people know what prop 47 did, so just very briefly, it reclassified a small handful of nonviolent property offenses to misdemeanors as the supervisor indicated at the gibing of the presentation. Those are listed there for anyone who hasnt reviewed the legislation prior to today. What prop 47 did is also permitted people that had already been sentenced, had already completed their sentence, an opportunity to have that reevaluated. So people that were serving prison sentences had an opportunity to petition to have their sentence reduced from a felony to a perform, as do people that are currently on probation or in county jail have an opportunity to petition for that. There are thousands of people around the state this state prison right now. So is this legislation going to be retroactive . Yes. Can you define for us what that means . If you were convicted of possessing cocaine for your personal use and were in a county other than San Francisco and were sent to state prison f
So is this legislation going to be retroactive . Yes. Can you define for us what that means . If you were convicted of possessing cocaine for your personal use and were in a county other than San Francisco and were sent to state prison for said offense, you could now ask to have your sentence resentenced so you could ask that that felony be reduced to a perform, generally resulting in your release from state prison because performs are not eligible for state prison time. If you were serving a county jail sentence for possession of cocaine as a felony, you could petition to have that reduced to a will misdemeanor and then there would be an evaluation of what your sentence should object that misdemeanor. Is there additional county jail time that should be served or should you be released at that point. What happens if you are in state prison now and youve got multiple charges and one of them is possession and another one is rape . Only the drug possession is affected by this. Anybody tha