New bill would eliminate limits on reducing old, low-level felonies to misdemeanors

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New bill would eliminate limits on reducing old, low-level felonies to misdemeanors

Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) has introduced a bill that would eliminate the deadline to apply for reducing old low-level, non-violent felony convictions to misdemeanors.  The bill would take away the limit that was approved by voters in 2014 under Proposition 47 and would enable Californians with low-level felonies to move past more than 5,000 […]