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Committee on Revision of the Penal Code
Committee on Revision of the Penal Code
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:

  1. Harmonize and Clarify the Post-Conviction Processes for Showing Innocence and Wrongful Convictions

  2. Expand Post-Conviction Discovery

  3. Modernize Compensation for Innocent People

  4. Improve California’s Approach to Driving Under the Influence Offenses

  5. Simplify Civil Asset Forfeiture

  6. Establish Prosecutor-Led Diversion for Gun Possession Offenses

  7. Eliminate Accomplice Liability for Implied Malice Murder

  8. Limit Firearm Enhancements to People Who Used or Were Armed With a Gun

  9. Prohibit the Felony-Murder Rule in Provocative-Act Murders

  10. 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).

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2024 Annual Report and Recommendations
2024 Annual Report

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