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I'm guessing, though certainly not positive, that the victim's rights bill will get challenged and overturned. It seems like a pretty serious violation of the federal Bill of Rights relating to criminal law and due process to me, so I'm not horribly worried about the fact that it passed. Until then, though, it's certainly a nasty little thing to make it into CA law.
I agree with you completely, smooth. This initiative and the initiative on non-violent drug offenses probably got a lot of votes from people who just looked at the title without thinking through what they meant. They're both horrible laws with corrupt, but pretty sounding, motivations. It's too bad more people didn't realize that.
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