Criminal
Apr. 29, 2021
3 bills would dampen punitive effect of sentence enhancements
The bills, which passed the Public Safety Committees in the Assembly and Senate, will likely be a test of the Democrat-controlled Legislature’s appetite for some of the criminal sentencing policies recently adopted by district attorneys in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Indicating a possible response to the debate that's playing out among prosecutors and in the courts, California lawmakers have advanced three proposed bills that would dampen or eliminate the punitive effect of some criminal sentence enhancements and increase judicial discretion for dismissing them.
The bills, which passed the Public Safety Committees in the Assembly and Senate Tuesday, will likely be a test of the Democrat-controll...
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