People v. Davis

Opinion

MARGULIES, J. —

In early 2014, defendant Leon Davis pleaded no contest to a felony charge of simple possession of methamphetamine and was placed on probation. While defendant was still on probation for the conviction, the passage of Proposition 47, the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, reduced simple possession and several other nonviolent crimes to misdemeanors and authorized persons “currently serving a sentence” for a felony conviction for such crimes to petition for a recall of sentence.

Proposition 47 places one condition on such resentencings: while the conviction is reduced to a…