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Racial Justice and Marijuana - California Western School of Law As a small first step for unwinding the War on Drugs, this Article considers how le-galizing recreational marijuana can help move law and society toward true racial justice, measured by material and actual outcomes for system-ically subordinated groups
California Lets Defendants Challenge Racism In Court. Few Have . . . The California Legislature passed the law in 2020 to allow people to show that discrimination contributed to their criminal charges or sentencing, and get their conviction or sentence modified Essentially, the law allows defendants and their representation to put bias on the stand
Beyond Bars: How California’s Resentencing Laws Offer New Hope . . . In recent years, California has made significant strides in criminal justice reform, particularly around sentencing and resentencing laws California’s resentencing laws are designed to revisit and potentially reduce sentences for certain categories of convicted individuals
California Innocence Advocates and California Western’s Innocence . . . On April 4, 2024, Wesner Charles, Jr , a client of California Innocence Advocates and California Western School of Law’s Innocence Clinic, was resentenced to time served He will be released from prison in the coming days
RESENTENCING RESOURCES FOR LWOP - fuelwop. org But what happens when a juvenile originally sentenced to LWOP, who was already resentenced pursuant to PC 1170(d)(1), applies for resentencing under Heard claiming his new sentence constitutes FLWOP?
The California Racial Justice Act of 2020, Explained - Stanford Law School What is the California Racial Justice Act of 2020? Challenging criminal convictions or sentences as racially discriminatory is very difficult, due in part to the seemingly impossible standard set in 1987 by the U S Supreme Court in McCleskey v Kemp
Racial Justice Act: A Movement in California and Beyond AB 1071 is essential to aid courts in seeking to eliminate racial bias from California’s court system Racism in any form or amount, at any stage of a criminal trial, is intolerable and undermines a fair criminal justice system Access to equal protection of the law that is free from discrimination is a human right