A new law is giving a man who would’ve possibly spent the rest of his life in prison a lighter sentence.
It wasn’t the outcome San Diego County Deputy District Attorney Laura Evans wanted, but she said under the new law, the judge can make the determination on a case-by-case basis.
"Based upon the new law in California, the court is now allowed to sentence a defendant on the lesser offense, lesser punishment instead of the term that carries the longer sentence," Judge Roderick Ward Shelton said.
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