The following excerpt is from McCraw v. McDowell, Case No.: 17-cv-523 MMA (JLB) (S.D. Cal. 2017):
2. On November 4, 2014, California voters approved Proposition 47, which redesignated some non-serious, non-violent crimes as misdemeanors instead of felonies and permitted resentencing for prisoners currently serving a sentence for any of the offenses that the initiative reduced to misdemeanors. See Turner v. Richardson, 13-cv-00454, 2016 WL 47445, at *1 (E.D. Cal. Jan. 5, 2016).
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