SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP/CBS13) — The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the state's 2018 law barring 14- and 15-year-olds from being tried as adults and sent to adult prisons even for serious crimes such as murder, arson, robbery, rape or kidnapping. The state high court found the law did not conflict with Proposition 57, approved by voters two years earlier, that allowed judges to decide whether young suspects should be tried in adult court. READ MORE: Victimized Again: Looters Rummage Through Victims’ Burned Homes "The amendment is fully consistent with and furthers Proposition 57's fundamental purposes of promoting rehabilitation of youthful offenders and reducing the prison population," Associate Justice Joshua Groban wrote in the unanimous decision. Five lower appellate courts previously found that there was no conflict, but a sixth appellate panel ruled in 2019 that SB1391 was superseded by the ballot measure and therefore was unconstitutional. Opponents of the law argued that the California Constitution says such ballot measures can't be changed by the Legislature, only by another statewide vote. Proponents including California Attorney General Xavier Becerra countered that the law furthers the intent of the ballot measure and therefore is valid. The ballot measure took decisions on whether… Read full this story
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