October 24, 2024 | Paul Wallin The Prosecution Cannot Use Evidence Against You If It Was Obtained Outside The Scope Of A Search Warrant In the… Read More Navigating New Horizons in Justice: A Legal Insight into CA Prop 36 and Sentencing Evolution October 23, 2024 | Paul Wallin Navigat...
“Prop. 36 represents a tool to help us address the crisis of homelessness because people who receive treatment have a much greater chance of staying housed.” There’s one big catch: Most counties don’t have nearly enough behavioral health treatment facilities, services or workforce to ...
Prop. 14 has also created circumstances in which the general election is a food-fight between two Republicans, bringing an intra-party feud to the general election. And, of course, the open primary has led to much higher costs to campaign (candidates now have to talk to every voter in Jun...
Wei said he expects interest rates to fall slightly in 2024 to around 6.5% — still well above the 3% rates seen during the pandemic. "We're still going to have higher mortgage payments for many of the homebuyers," he said.
which also capped the state's property taxes at 1% of assessed value and ensured that the assessed value can't increase by more than 2% per year. In the three decades since Prop. 13 passed, it has saved California taxpayers more than half a trillion dollars. But its limitations on propert...
you successfully completed a program of diversion, such as Prop 36 drug diversion or Penal Code 1000 deferred entry of judgment,16 Sealing an arrest record generally allows you to state that you have never been arrested for a crime. This is because in order to seal a record the judge must...
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9.16.24 Crime after Prop 47 and the Pandemic - PPIC report shows that Prop 47 did result in a moderate increase in crime - the bigger problem however was the early release of convicted criminals. Surprisingly, emptying out prison beds to save the state money resulted in more crime for resid...
Prop 36 Penalties and prison time for any drug crime may depend on the amount of drugs involved, and whether or not the defendant has a prior criminal record. Quantities over the “threshold” amount may result in the state seeking mandatory minimum prison time. Offenses such as sale, transpo...
Breed, who initially supported Prop 47, said she’s now seeing unintended consequences of the measure as she tries to crack down on illegal drugs and theft in her city, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in February. "Our goal is not to keep people locked up," she said. "...