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Supreme Court broadens retroactivity of punishment-reduction laws

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Working on the presumption that the “ Legislature intends for ameliorative enactments to apply as broadly as is constitutionally permis sible,” the Supreme Court i n People v. The court ruled similarly last year in People v. The court reverses the Second District, Division Five, Court of Appeal.

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