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public safety determination

1 opinion tagged “public safety determination”

P. v. Scott 6/11/26 CA6

The Rule of People v. Scott is that defendants serving Three Strikes sentences who successfully petition for Proposition 47 relief must also satisfy Proposition 36's public safety requirements before receiving a full resentencing on their indeterminate sentences, under circumstances where the defendant's aggregate sentence implicates both Proposition 36 and Proposition 47.