silence7@lemmy.world to California@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoNewsom commutes all 548 California death sentences in historic movewww.sfchronicle.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up137file-text
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minus-squareOwOarchist@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 days ago Supposedly it has to pass through the state’s supreme court. California gives its state supreme court power to supervise a governor’s pardons?
minus-squareSharkticon@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 days agoIf I recall it something like this, if a convict has two or more felony convictions the governor can’t pardon them without a majority I think of the Supreme Court signing off on it.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 days agoThat would break the whole principle of pardons.
California gives its state supreme court power to supervise a governor’s pardons?
If I recall it something like this, if a convict has two or more felony convictions the governor can’t pardon them without a majority I think of the Supreme Court signing off on it.
That would break the whole principle of pardons.