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'California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) Saturday vetoed a bill that would have allowed prosecutors or judges to charge simple drug possession as a misdemeanor instead of a felony.
Some 10,000 people are convicted of drug possession felonies each year in California, and experts estimated that, under the bill, 15% to 30% of them would have been charged instead with misdemeanors.
The exact number is unknown because the bill would have left those decisions up to prosecutors and judges.
But in any case, the bill would have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in criminal justice system savings, which would have provided local governments with more flexibility to invest in drug treatment and mental health services and focus law enforcement resources on more serious offenses, along with lightening up on some of the people caught up in the criminal justice system.
The bill, Senate Bill 649, was sponsored by Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and passed the legislature with bipartisan support, but was opposed by law enforcement and some prosecutors. Leno and supporters had argued that the bill would save the state money on incarceration and related costs.'
'California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) Saturday vetoed a bill that would have allowed prosecutors or judges to charge simple drug possession as a misdemeanor instead of a felony.
Some 10,000 people are convicted of drug possession felonies each year in California, and experts estimated that, under the bill, 15% to 30% of them would have been charged instead with misdemeanors.
The exact number is unknown because the bill would have left those decisions up to prosecutors and judges.
But in any case, the bill would have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in criminal justice system savings, which would have provided local governments with more flexibility to invest in drug treatment and mental health services and focus law enforcement resources on more serious offenses, along with lightening up on some of the people caught up in the criminal justice system.
The bill, Senate Bill 649, was sponsored by Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and passed the legislature with bipartisan support, but was opposed by law enforcement and some prosecutors. Leno and supporters had argued that the bill would save the state money on incarceration and related costs.'
I don't agree with Gov. Brown, but his justification is that they are having a sentencing restructuring in the near future anyway.
It's not only drug sentences that ought to be reconsidered. The guy doing 15-to-life for sucking on boys' toes ought to cause California to reconsider some of its sex laws.
I don't agree with Gov. Brown, but his justification is that they are having a sentencing restructuring in the near future anyway.
It's not only drug sentences that ought to be reconsidered. The guy doing 15-to-life for sucking on boys' toes ought to cause California to reconsider some of its sex laws.
Wow, that's pretty gross, but 15 to life? That's worse than the Az realtor doing 10 years for cursing a cop. Well, maybe the gov will pardon?
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It's easy. Just stay away from illegal drugs.
ya why do illegal drugs when you can drink and get obliterated on all the alcoholic beverages and prescription poisons one can digest
I would rather smoke weed than do the above
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