People v. Superior Court

Opinion

BROWN, J.

In this case, we address the scope of trial courts’ sentencing discretion pursuant to Penal Code section 17, subdivision (b), to reduce to a misdemeanor an offense originally charged as a felony under the three *973strikes law. (Pen. Code, §§667, subds. (b)-(i), 1170.12.)1 Because neither version of the three strikes law qualifies the statutory authority by which a trial court may determine a crime to be “a misdemeanor for all purposes” (§ 17, subd. (b)), we conclude courts continue to have broad authority the exercise of which should be reviewed in accordance with the generally…