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BigmanPigman

(51,432 posts)
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 10:02 PM Feb 2020

Almost 66,000 pot convictions dismissed in LA County

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/13/us/california-los-angeles-marijuana-convictions/index.html

"The cases include 62,000 felony convictions for cases -- including those for marijuana sales and cultivation -- dating back to 1961, and about 4,000 misdemeanor possession cases, District Attorney Jackie Lacey's office said."

"The 66,000 dismissals mean conviction relief for about 53,000 people. About 45% are Latino; 32% are black; and 20% are white, Lacey's office said."

"In November 2016, California voters OK'd the legalization of recreational marijuana by approving Proposition 64. The proposition's passage also allows people to petition the judicial system to have their old pot convictions expunged."

"In 2018, the state Legislature passed AB 1793, which required the state Department of Justice to scour California's crime records and find past cannabis convictions that are eligible to be expunged or downgraded to misdemeanors -- generally, convictions for activities that would no longer be crimes under Proposition 64."
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Almost 66,000 pot convictions dismissed in LA County (Original Post) BigmanPigman Feb 2020 OP
Wow, just one county. Baked Potato Feb 2020 #1
That's true, unless they have pals in tRumpland. BigmanPigman Feb 2020 #2
I hear you. Baked Potato Feb 2020 #3
Confused here; who did we clean out? Thank you. quaint Feb 2020 #4
Well, when I was living there the last time Baked Potato Feb 2020 #5
Different experiences quaint Feb 2020 #6

Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)
1. Wow, just one county.
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 11:47 PM
Feb 2020

Those 4,000 simple possession cases probably stopped a lot of people on a quest for upward mobility.

BigmanPigman

(51,432 posts)
2. That's true, unless they have pals in tRumpland.
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 01:15 AM
Feb 2020

It is a place where you can commit any crime and it magically disappears, even shooting someone on 5th Ave or betraying the US Constitution and your oath. Inequality is alive and prospering in White Collar USA. Fortunately, people in CA are doing something about it.

Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)
5. Well, when I was living there the last time
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 02:30 PM
Feb 2020

Arnold was in charge. Arnold is gone. Issa is gone. Wasn’t the midterms good for Democrats? That turd in San Diego is in deep trouble. Pretty good clean out so far I’d say.

quaint

(2,513 posts)
6. Different experiences
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 02:36 PM
Feb 2020

Eight years of Jerry Brown between Schwarzenegger and Newsom. And I got more riled at Jerry this time around than I recall being with Arnie. Perhaps colored by my expectations.

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