With no fanfare and no public announcements, the district attorney of Sacramento County has quietly been reducing or dismissing old marijuana convictions for pot crimes that are no longer crimes or are misdemeanors under state law.
Anne Marie Schubert, recently re-elected to a second term as DA, has not said a peep about this publicly, even though doing so during the bitter campaign she won on June 5 over a former underling might have deflected some of the heat she's been taking from Black Lives Matter and other progressives who think she's too conservative.
Last week, Schubert met with community leaders convened by Sacramento City Councilman Jay Schenirer, who hopes that Schubert will conduct a public service campaign to get the word out to people whose old marijuana crimes might be reduced or dismissed under Proposition 64, the 2016 voter-approved initiative that legalized marijuana for recreational use in the state.
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