So far they have reviewed 43 years of eligible convictions, proactively dismissing and sealing 3,038 marijuana misdemeanours and reviewing, and recalling and re-sentencing up to 4,940 other felony marijuana convictions which were sentenced prior to Proposition 64’s passage in November 2016.
This sounds to me like it's quashing convictions for marijuana-related activity which is no longer a crime, and where sentences have already been served. So the convicts are no longer in prison, but they have a criminal record, which this project will wipe clean.
In a post from last year [1], a lawyer writes:
But here in California, there’s hardly anybody in prison for marijuana anymore because of the reforms in our system that have happened over the last decade.
This sounds to me like it's quashing convictions for marijuana-related activity which is no longer a crime, and where sentences have already been served. So the convicts are no longer in prison, but they have a criminal record, which this project will wipe clean.
In a post from last year [1], a lawyer writes:
But here in California, there’s hardly anybody in prison for marijuana anymore because of the reforms in our system that have happened over the last decade.
[1] https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/if-cannabis-becomes-lega...