San Francisco will retroactively apply California's new marijuana legalization laws to prior convictions, expunging or reducing misdemeanors and felonies dating to 1975, the district attorney's office announced Wednesday.
Nearly 5,000 felony marijuana convictions will be reviewed, recalled and resentenced, and more than 3,000 misdemeanors that were sentenced prior to Proposition 64's passage will be dismissed and sealed, Dist. Atty. George Gascón said. The move will clear people's records of crimes that can be barriers to employment and housing.
San Francisco's move could be the beginning of a larger movement to address old pot convictions, though it's still far from clear how many other counties will follow the famously liberal city's lead.
Proposition 64 legalizes, among other things, the possession and purchase of up to an ounce of marijuana and allows individuals to grow up to six plants for personal use. The measure also allows people convicted of marijuana possession crimes eliminated by Proposition 64 to petition the courts to have those convictions expunged from their records as long as the person does not pose a risk to public safety.
They also can petition to have some crimes reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor, including possession of more than an ounce of marijuana by a person who is 18 or older.
You know what they say, where California goes the country is sure to follow.
But that certainly will not happen with Jeff Sessions leading the Justice Department.
I believe his response to marijuana use is some version of "shoot on sight."
Old Jeffrey may not be wandering the halls of justice much longer. After all he followed orders of the dotard to rig the system. He will be one of many that will resign soon.
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DeleteUnfortunately, at least for our gubmint, and specifically ICE, the fact that a record is sealed and expunged does not mean what it seems to mean. Case in point: that doctor of polish origin who came here as a five year old, committed some misdemeanor crime when he was sixteen. The authorities had the record deleted and sealed when he did whatever they wanted him to do. Officially that record was gone. Yet, ICE somehow got a hold of it, and even though the doctor was a Green Card holder, he was arrested and either is already deported or is waiting to be deported to Poland - a country he has no recollection of, does not speak the language, has no relatives in (his wife and children live here in the US and are US citizens).
ReplyDeleteSo, people of California: unless your government somehow REALLY can get rid of those convictions (which I doubt, because you already have been living with the job issues), that record will stay with you and be brought up again and again. ESPECIALLY if you should be a DACA! (Remember, ICE just did a MASSIVE raid in more than 70 businesses in Northern Cal this week...)
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San Diego is looking at this too.
ReplyDeleteImagine if all of the states that voted to legalize marijuana did this?
Then more states voted to legalize. Then more states expunged.
"Proposition 64 legalizes, among other things, the possession and purchase of up to an ounce of marijuana and allows individuals to grow up to six plants for personal use."
ReplyDeleteThat is funny, a good grower can get a lb off one plant with the right genetics and environment. Even more so on a monster outdoor grow.
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