Supporters say they’re revising ballot proposal to soften three-strikes law
A day after receiving state permission to gather signatures for a proposed ballot measure to ease California’s three-strikes sentencing law, the sponsors say they plan to change it.
“We are currently working on an amendment,” said Julie Piccolotti, the Half Moon Bay resident who filed the papers seeking to begin the process of putting the initiative on the November 2016 ballot. She would not elaborate.
The 19-page proposal approved Tuesday would reduce the number of crimes that can be counted under the three-strikes law, which requires sentences of 25 years to life for those convicted of three violent felonies.
Piccolotti said Wednesday that she would not comment on the planned changes until after the proposed amendment is filed with the state attorney general’s office for review, possibly next week.
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