What is the impact of the 2000 Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act on sentencing of drug offenders?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Mizner, H040421 (Cal. App. 2016):

12. This proposition was an initiative measure approved by the voters years before the 2012 Proposition 36. "The Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000 . . . , which the voters of California enacted through Proposition 36, requires courts to order probation and community-based drug treatment rather than incarceration for certain criminal offenders who commit ' "nonviolent drug possession offense[s]" ' . . . . (Pen.Code, 1210, subd. (a).)" (People v. Guzman (2005) 35 Cal.4th 577, 583, fn. omitted.)

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