P. v. Vaughn CA4/2
On November 4, 2014, the voters approved Proposition 47, The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act (Proposition 47) which is set forth in former Penal Code section 1170.18. Proposition 47 reduced certain nonserious, nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors. It provided for a procedure that “[a] person currently serving a sentence for a conviction, whether by trial or plea, of a felony or felonies who would have been guilty of a misdemeanor under the act that added this section . . . had this act been in effect at the time of the offense may petition for a recall of sentence before the trial court that entered the judgment of conviction in his or her case to request resentencing . . . .” (§ 1170.18, subd. (a).)
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