In what circumstances will a criminal charge be reduced to a misdemeanor under Proposition 47 of the California Penal Code?

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The following excerpt is from People v. Bartlett, G051386 (Cal. App. 2018):

In 2014, the voters enacted Proposition 47, which makes certain drug- and theft-related offenses punishable as misdemeanors, unless the offenses were committed by certain ineligible defendants. (Page, supra, 3 Cal.5th at p. 1179; People v. Rivera (2015) 233 Cal.App.4th 1085, 1089, 1091.) Those offenses previously had been designated either as felonies or as crimes that can be punished as either felonies or misdemeanors. (People v. Rivera, supra, at p. 1091.) "To that end, Proposition 47 amended or added several statutory provisions, including new Penal Code section 490.2,

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