Legal Opinion
People v. Harris
California Court of Appeal, 5th District
Decided September 6, 2017No. D070711PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENKE, J., Acting P.J.
*51In December 2013, Taleia Harris pled guilty to felony grand theft from a person for stealing a wallet from the victim's person. ( Pen. Code, 1 § 487, subd. (c).) In November 2014, the voters enacted Proposition 47, the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act (Proposition 47)
*52( Cal. Const., art. II, § 10, subd. (a)), which reduced certain crimes from felonies to misdemeanors and allowed a person convicted of one of those felonies before its passage to petition the court to reduce the felony conviction to a misdemeanor and be resentenced. Harris successfully petitioned to have…
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