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[applause] marty, let me ask you, youre obviously part of the california district attorneys association, as we were talking before the panel began, you shared with me that your organization has previously supported a measure that mark leno brought forward to lower the punishment for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana to a misdemeanor to an infraction. In this case your organization is essentially opposed to it. What do you say to mr. Adelman and mr. Gascon . I think one of the things i want to point out is that in terms of the changes currently taking place in californias criminal J...

Very large experiment and thats called realignment. Prison population in california is going to approach by or sometime next year the federal mandate of 130,000. Weve already released some 50,000 individuals to serve their time locally, and these offenses that we were talking about here are currently in the list of offenses that were to be served in county jails now. And if the notion here is to provide services and treatment to these individuals from a practical point of view, and i lean heavily on my experience as a misdemeanor prosecutor for all those years when we did possession offenses, ...

Want to point out is that in terms of the changes currently taking place in californias criminal Justice System is that we have embarked on a very, very large experiment and thats called realignment. Prison population in california is going to approach by or sometime next year the federal mandate of 130,000. Weve already released some 50,000 individuals to serve their time locally, and these offenses that we were talking about here are currently in the list of offenses that were to be served in county jails now. And if the notion here is to provide services and treatment to these individuals f...

Association, as we were talking before the panel began, you shared with me that your organization has previously supported a measure that mark leno brought forward to lower the punishment for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana to a misdemeanor to an infraction. In this case your organization is essentially opposed to it. What do you say to mr. Adelman and mr. Gascon . I think one of the things i want to point out is that in terms of the changes currently taking place in californias criminal Justice System is that we have embarked on a very, very large experiment and thats called rea...

Im pleased two of the bills i have authored are part of the Senate Version. It would be ripped out by the republican version, so i strongly support the Bipartisan Senate version, one i authored with representative poe in a bipartisan way. And that was the safer act. This took the monies and directed justice not to just spend money but process the backlog of d. N. A. Kits to put rapists behind bars and the campus save act. There is too much violence on campus. One in five women will be assaulted on College Campuses. This would require colleges to keep students safe. And also the bipartisan impo...