enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Safety valve (law) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_valve_(law)

    The safety valve is a provision in the Sentencing Reform Act and the United States Federal Sentencing Guidelines that authorizes a sentence below the statutory minimum for certain nonviolent, non-managerial drug offenders with little or no criminal history.

  3. California Codes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Codes

    As noted above, the initial four codes were not fully comprehensive. As a result, California statutory law became disorganized as uncodified statutes continued to pile up in the California Statutes. After many years of on-and-off Code Commissions, the California Code Commission was finally established as a permanent government agency in 1929.

  4. Pulsifer v. United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsifer_v._United_States

    The federal sentencing statute, 18 U.S.C. 3553, contains a provision known as a "safety valve". The safety valve, located at § 3553(f), requires the trial courts to sentence qualifying defendants according to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, regardless of any statutory minimum sentences. Criteria for qualification are listed in § 3553(f)(1 ...

  5. Justice Safety Valve Act of 2013 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Safety_Valve_Act...

    The Justice Safety Valve Act of 2013 (H.R. 1695 in the House or S. 619 in the Senate) is a bill in the 113th United States Congress. [1] The bill would allow courts to impose criminal penalties below the statutory minimum sentences under certain circumstances.

  6. California Health and Safety Code - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Health_and...

    The California Health and Safety Code is the codification of general statutory law covering the subject areas of health and safety in the state of California. [1] It is one of the 29 California Codes and was originally signed into law by the Governor of California on April 7, 1939. [2]

  7. Law of California - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_California

    Bernard Witkin's Summary of California Law, a legal treatise popular with California judges and lawyers. The Constitution of California is the foremost source of state law. . Legislation is enacted within the California Statutes, which in turn have been codified into the 29 California Co

  8. 2016 California Proposition 57 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_California_Proposition_57

    Proposition 57 was an initiated California ballot proposition, approved on the November 8, 2016 ballot. The Proposition allows parole consideration for nonviolent felons, changes policies on juvenile prosecution, [ 2 ] and authorizes sentence credits for rehabilitation, good behavior, and education.

  9. Safety valve (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_valve_(disambiguation)

    A safety valve is a mechanism for the release of a substance from a pressurized vessel when the pressure or temperature exceeds preset limits. Safety valve may also refer to: Safety valve (law), a provision in the United States Federal Sentencing Guidelines; Safety valve theory, relating unemployment and the Homestead Act of 1862