REALIGNMENT AND HOW IT WILL CHANGE SENTENCING IN CALIFORNIA
As of October 1, 2011, The Public Safety Realignment Program (“Realignment”) was passed into law of Assembly Bills 109, 117, and 118. Realignment transfers some of the most important public safety responsibilities from the state onto the counties. First of all, due to realignment, Penal Code section 17 has been amended and changes the definition […]
