Government,
Criminal
Jun. 8, 2021
Bills more likely to pass when DAs’ group opposes, study days
“Many of our positions are based on nuanced issues with the bill,” Morse said. “It isn’t that we’re opposed to the policy; it’s that there are elements of the bill that the Legislature has not thought through,” said legislative director Larry D. Morse of the California District Attorneys Association.
A state bill is more likely to pass into law if the California District Attorneys Association lobbies against it, a study found. But a spokesman said the research from the University of North Carolina School of Law missed some of the nuance in the prosecutor group’s positions.
“Prosecutor Lobbying in the States, 2015-2018” is a 50-state study released last week. Just 11 of its 314 pages are specifically about California. But it rea...
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