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The First District Court of Appeal has rejected the position of the Office of Attorney General that a 2024 voter-enacted measure cracking down on possessors of hard drugs with two or more priors are ineligible for pre-trial mental health diversion.

One judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court erred in declining to review a “no-bail” decision by a member of that same tribunal in light of an intervening appellate opinion rejecting the analysis contained in the decision relied upon by the first bench officer, Div. One of the Court of Appeal for this district has held.

Div. One of this district’s Court of Appeal has held that resentencing initiated under the catchall provision allowing for reconsideration of a term of imprisonment based on any legislative changes need not result in a “meaningful modification” of the sentence, rejecting the defendant’s assertion that a trial judge abused his discretion in reducing his sentence from 369 to 225 years to life in prison because the reduction does not carry any practical weight.