Post by Logan on Apr 10, 2016 6:23:13 GMT -6
It was seen as a chance for a clean slate and a remedy for California’s overcrowded prisons and jails. Proposition 47 allowed current and ex-felons with nonviolent theft and drug possession offenses to petition to have their crimes reclassified as misdemeanors.
Petitioners jumped at the opportunity, applying for resentencing and reclassification in a wave that flooded courthouses across California by the tens of thousands – more than 200,000 petitions and applications were filed in the 13 months after voters approved Proposition 47 in November 2014, including more than 10,000 in Sacramento Superior Court, according to the state’s Judicial Council.
Now a Judicial Council report that examined the early impacts of Proposition 47 on workload in California’s court system has exposed issues from the need to steer resources to handle Proposition 47 cases to the added layers of complexity the ballot measure laid over felony and misdemeanor cases.
The Judicial Council’s report, “Proposition 47 in the Courts: Workload Impacts,” eyed the impacts of Proposition 47 on court operations, using online surveys, phone interviews in nine California counties and site visits to courthouses in Kern, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Clara and Shasta counties to interview judges, court workers and others in the justice system.
Read more here: www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/the-public-eye/article70845307.html
Petitioners jumped at the opportunity, applying for resentencing and reclassification in a wave that flooded courthouses across California by the tens of thousands – more than 200,000 petitions and applications were filed in the 13 months after voters approved Proposition 47 in November 2014, including more than 10,000 in Sacramento Superior Court, according to the state’s Judicial Council.
Now a Judicial Council report that examined the early impacts of Proposition 47 on workload in California’s court system has exposed issues from the need to steer resources to handle Proposition 47 cases to the added layers of complexity the ballot measure laid over felony and misdemeanor cases.
The Judicial Council’s report, “Proposition 47 in the Courts: Workload Impacts,” eyed the impacts of Proposition 47 on court operations, using online surveys, phone interviews in nine California counties and site visits to courthouses in Kern, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Clara and Shasta counties to interview judges, court workers and others in the justice system.
Read more here: www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/the-public-eye/article70845307.html