Bill revising California juvenile resentencing process signed into law

A bill that revises California’s juvenile resentencing process, in light of a 50-years-to-life prison sentence that was recently wiped out for the 2001 Santana High School shooter, has been signed into law.

Assembly Bill 1959, authored by Assemblymember Darshana Patel, D-San Diego, revises the laws governing defendants sentenced to prison for crimes they committed as juveniles.

The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office said the current state of the law allowed Charles Andrew “Andy” Williams, who killed two students and wounded more than a dozen other victims at the Santee campus, to have his case potentially transferred to juvenile court, which could result in his release…

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