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Sentencing Law and Policy: Intriguing review of early impact of California s Prop 47 reducing offense seriousness

Intriguing review of early impact of California s Prop 47 reducing offense seriousness Though marijuana reform is the national criminal justice reform story most significantly driven by voter initiatives, voters in California the last two major election cycles have been enacting significant sentencing reforms through the initiative process.  In 2012, voters approved Proposition 36 to revise the state s tough Three Strikes Law; last year, voters passed Proposition 47 to reduced various crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. These developments provide yet another reason to view California as the most interesting and dynamic of all states in the history of modern sentencing reform. The Los Angeles Times now has this lengthy new article detailing some early impacts of Prop 47. The piece is headlined Prop. 47 brings a shift to longer time spent behind bars, and here are excerpts:

Nyjah Huston, 4 Others Charged in Crackdown on Pandemic Parties

Nyjah Huston, the four-time world skateboarding champion and X Games gold medalist, is one of five people charged by Los Angeles prosecutors late last week for allegedly organizing large parties that had the potential to become superspreader events in violation of COVID-19 safety orders. Los Angeles Times reports, Huston and Edward Essa, the owner of an alleged party house on Curson Avenue in Fairfax, have been charged with the misdemeanor offense of creating a nuisance after several visits by the police failed to curb their fêtes, causing Mayor Eric Garcetti to order the house’s electricity turned off. In January, LAPD officers responding to a complaint about a crowd at a “social media influencer residence” cleared about 40 people from the property, where law enforcement had previously shut down festivities and issued warnings on September 12-13 and October 17.

Moment cops shoot homeless black man, 42, dead after he reached for deputy s gun

Moment cops shoot homeless black man, 42, dead after he reached for deputy s gun - as family says cops escalated situation when they tackled him to the ground over jaywalking Kurt Reinhold, a 42-year-old father-of-two and former bodybuilder who had fallen on hard times, was shot dead on September 23  Shooting occurred when Orange County Sheriff s Deputies Eduardo Duran and Jonathan Israel confronted him at a California intersection Orange County Sheriff s Office released a video Wednesday including dashcam footage, surveillance footage from a motel and cellphone video The victim s family says it proves the officers had no reason to stop him The dashcam video shows the two deputies appearing to sit in wait for Reinhold to jaywalk across the street 

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