Letter to CA Gov. Newsom on Allowing Juries to Consider Lesser Offenses (Sept 2026)

On behalf of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), we respectfully urge you to sign SB 1173 into law. This legislation would restore an important safeguard in California criminal trials by giving a trial judge discretion to permit a jury to consider a lesser related offense when the facts presented at trial support that offense.

 

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