Government,
Criminal
Feb. 5, 2021
Bill aims to allow resentencing of murder accomplices who got life
SB 300, written by state Sen. Dave Cortese, D-Silicon Valley, would repeal portions of Proposition 115, a 1990 voter-approved initiative known as the Crime Victims Justice Reform Act, and would create a pathway for condemned murder accomplices or those serving life behind bars to seek a new sentence.
Criminal accomplices convicted of first-degree murder who did not kill but acted with reckless indifference to human life while participating in a felony that results in death would no longer face a mandatory capital sentence or life without the possibility of parole under a proposed measure introduced in the California Legislature.
SB 300, written by Sen. Dave Cortese, D-Silicon Valley, would repeal portions of Proposition 115, a 1...
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