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Related: About this forumAlmost 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."
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)Those 4,000 simple possession cases probably stopped a lot of people on a quest for upward mobility.
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)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)Im glad California cleaned house in the state government.
quaint
(2,513 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)Arnold was in charge. Arnold is gone. Issa is gone. Wasnt the midterms good for Democrats? That turd in San Diego is in deep trouble. Pretty good clean out so far Id say.
quaint
(2,513 posts)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.