Prosecutors’ lawsuit challenges Jerry Brown’s crime initiative

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By Jim Miller in The Sacramento Bee

February 12, 2016

California prosecutors have asked a judge to block a newly amended ballot measure championed by Gov. Jerry Brown that would make it easier for non-violent prisoners to get parole.

In a new lawsuit, the California District Attorneys Association and Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, said Attorney General Kamala Harris should not have accepted Brown’s Jan. 25 amendments to a proposed ballot measure filed Dec. 22 that dealt with juvenile crime.

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