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People v. Acosta

California Court of Appeal

Decided November 20, 2015No. B261828PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion

KRIEGLER, J.

The electorate passed the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act (Proposition 47) in November 2014, reducing the punishment for various controlled substance offenses and some property-related offenses to misdemeanors. Defendant Jose Miguel Robles Acosta petitioned the superior court for reduction of his 2012 felony conviction of attempted second degree burglary of a vehicle (Pen. Code, §§ 664, 459) 2 to a misdemeanor. We affirm the superior court’s denial of Acosta’s petition on the basis that attempted car burglary is not among the offenses reduced to misdemeanors by…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. McLaughlin v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  2. People v. GardeleyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1996
  3. Arias v. Superior CourtCalifornia Supreme Court · 2009
  4. Chia-Lee Hsu v. AbbaraCalifornia Supreme Court · 1995
  5. Robert L. v. Superior CourtCalifornia Supreme Court · 2003

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. People v. JohnstonCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2016
  2. People v. VarnerCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2016
  3. People v. Bussey, California Court of Appeal, 5th District2018
  4. People v. GoodrichCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2017
  5. People v. Haywood, California Court of Appeal, 3rd District2015

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