Changes procedures governing state court appeals and petitions challenging death penalty convictions and sentences. Designates superior court for initial petitions and limits successive petitions.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A new television advertisement that will be seen in the Los Angeles area in the coming weeks urges support for Proposition 46, which calls for random drug and alcohol testing for ...

Prop 46 is trying to do three main things: 1) Increase the amount you can sue a doctor for non-economic losses -- things like pain and suffering -- from $250,000 to $1.1 million, and then adjust that ...

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California Proposition 36, which passed in the Nov. 5 election and went into effect on Dec. 18, has law enforcement changing how they deal with specific theft and drug crimes in Tulare County. The ...

Both Smith and Shirley are serving 25-years-to-life sentences in California's crowded prisons. Both felons, and thousands of others, are at the center of a debate this year over whether the state's ...