People v. Williams

*463The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted by the voters as Proposition 47 in the November 2014 election, downgrades several felonies and wobblers to misdemeanors and permits persons convicted of those felonies and wobblers to have them redesignated as misdemeanors. (Pen.Code, § 1170.18.)1 As relevant here, section 667.5, subdivision (b), requires a court to increase any sentence of imprisonment *757for a felony by one extra year for each of a defendant's prior felony convictions that resulted in a separate term of imprisonment. This case deals with the interaction of these two provisions:…