P. v. Mendoza CA6
This case concerns defendant Manuel Antonio Mendoza’s petition for resentencing pursuant to Penal Code section 1170.18, which was added in 2014 by Proposition 47 (Voter Information Guide, Gen. Elec. (Nov. 4, 2014) text of Prop. 47, § 14, pp. 73-74, eff. Nov. 5, 2014; see Cal. Const., art. II, § 10, subd. (a)), also known as “the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act.” (Voter Information Guide, supra, text of Prop. 47, § 1, p. 70). Proposition 47 “reduced the punishment for certain theft- and drug related offenses, making them punishable as misdemeanors rather than felonies.” (People v. Page (2017) 3 Cal.5th 1175, 1179 (Page).) “To that end, Proposition 47 amended or added several statutory provisions, including new Penal Code section 490.2, which provides that ‘obtaining any property by theft’ is petty theft and is to be punished as a misdemeanor if the value of the property taken is $950 or less. [Citation.] A separate provision of Proposition 47, codified in Pe
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