The Committee on Revision of the Penal Code has released its
2024 Annual Report. The report describes the Committee's work and recommendations for the upcoming legislative cycle.
The recommendations are:
- Harmonize and Clarify the Post-Conviction Processes for Showing Innocence and Wrongful Convictions
- Expand Post-Conviction Discovery
- Modernize Compensation for Innocent People
- Improve California’s Approach to Driving Under the Influence Offenses
- Simplify Civil Asset Forfeiture
- Establish Prosecutor-Led Diversion for Gun Possession Offenses
- Eliminate Accomplice Liability for Implied Malice Murder
- Limit Firearm Enhancements to People Who Used or Were Armed With a Gun
- Prohibit the Felony-Murder Rule in Provocative-Act Murders
- Specify that Proposition 57 Credits Apply to Indeterminate Sentences
Information about the Committee's work can be found through the navigational menu (above) or by using the site map (below).