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"Ruling lets some felons seek reduced terms"

"Ruling lets some felons seek reduced terms": Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, "A state Supreme Court ruling Monday allows hundreds of California prisoners to seek reductions in sentences that judges imposed without jury findings, but recent legislation makes it unlikely that many of them will get a break. The court said inmates sentenced since March 2004 are covered by a later U.S. Supreme Court ruling that found California's sentencing law violated the constitutional right to a jury trial."

You can access yesterday's ruling of the Supreme Court of California at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).