In what circumstances will a criminal charge be reduced to a misdemeanor?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Phillips, G051192 (Cal. App. 2015):
In 2014, the voters enacted Proposition 47, which makes certain drug- and theft-related offenses misdemeanors, unless the offenses were committed by certain ineligible defendants. Those offenses previously had been designated either as felonies or as crimes that can be punished as either felonies or misdemeanors. (See People v. Morales (2015) 238 Cal.App.4th 42, 46 (Morales).)
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