Criminal
Feb. 17, 2021
Bills aim to change sentencing, informant testimony laws
One bill would limit uncorroborated testimony from in-custody informants to misdemeanor prosecutions and finding facts in aggravation. Another would make domestic violence and human trafficking trauma a mitigating factor in sentencing.
Trauma from domestic violence and human trafficking would be considered a mitigating factor during the sentencing phase of criminal trials, and testimony from in-custody informants would be inadmissible in felony cases under two proposed bills introduced by state Democratic lawmakers.
AB 124, authored by Assemblywoman Sydney Kamlager, D-Los Angeles, would require judges to impose the lowest possible sentence on convicts whose traum...
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