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Possession under HS 11350 was formerly a prosecuted as a misdemeanor or felony with up to 3 years in prison, but Proposition 47 made simple possession for personal use a misdemeanor only. In practice, those charged with cocaine possession will in most cases be given an opportunity to plead guilty and receive no jail time under PC 1000, Prop 36 ...
Before Proposition 47, if you carried drugs of any weight, otherwise known as simple drug possession, it could have been considered either a felony or a misdemeanor. When Proposition 47 passed ...
Requires misdemeanor sentence instead of felony for certain drug and property offenses. Inapplicable to persons with prior conviction for serious or violent crime and registered sex offenders. Fiscal Impact: State and county criminal justice savings potentially in the high hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
In 2014, drug possession in California was reduced to a misdemeanor, rather than a felony, with the passing of Proposition 47.In response, San Francisco law enforcement reduced their efforts against drug possession and use. [1]
Passed in 2014, Proposition 47 made hard drug possession and theft under $950 misdemeanors instead of felonies. ... Ho noted that misdemeanor petty theft is a cite-and-release offense, which means ...
The new law taking effect Sunday, which passed with the support of Republican lawmakers who had long opposed decriminalization, makes so-called personal use possession a misdemeanor punishable by ...
Allowing people convicted of possession of illegal drugs (specifically those who possess certain drugs such as methamphetamines or fentanyl or those who have two or more past convictions for drug crimes) to be charged with a "treatment-mandated felony" instead of a misdemeanor in some cases. Upon completion of treatment, charges will be dismissed.
The bill would recriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs as a low-level misdemeanor, enabling police to confiscate them and crack down on their use on sidewalks and in parks, its ...