What is the effect of Proposition 21 on appellant's criminal convictions?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Torres, B234570 (Cal. App. 2012):

Appellant's current offenses were committed after Proposition 21 was enacted. Section 667.1, which was enacted as part of Proposition 21, provides that "[n]otwithstanding subdivision (h) of section 667, for all offenses committed on or after the effective date of this act, all references to existing statutes in subdivisions (c) to (g), inclusive, of Section 667 are to those statutes as they existed on the effective date of this act, including amendments made to those statutes by the act . . . ." Thus, the revised list of qualifying offenses enacted with Proposition 21 brings to bear the full effect of the three strikes law upon appellant's current convictions. In People v. James (2001) 91

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