“Ventura County juvenile cases unaffected by California court decision on Prop 57”

Megan Diskin reports in the Ventura County Star that the Supreme Court’s opinion earlier this month finding Proposition 57 to apply retroactively is no big deal in Ventura County.  In People v. Superior Court (Lara), the court construed the recent initiative that requires prosecutors to obtain juvenile court permission before charging minors with crimes in adult court.  However, Lara‘s retroactivity ruling simply “confirmed what the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office had been doing since the law changed in November 2016.”