In big cities or counties where the turn out for court is usually large, the judge may offer to reduce the charge to a lesser offense (reducing points on your driving record) or to a county ordinance (no points on your record).
Emerson's Divinity School address, amid its offenses, reduced Jesus to a sublimely typical man, one who was "true to what is in you and me," alive to the "daily miracle" of "man's life," and manifesting not miracles and an impossible sanctity but "a sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow".
The new law, Prop 64, not only OK'd possession for people 21 and older but also allows anyone to apply to have their past marijuana-related offenses reduced or expunged completely.
Policy makers nationwide should institute proven, effective reforms — reclassifying petty offenses, reducing harsh sentences and using incarceration as a last resort — to create a meaningful and permanent change to criminal justice policy and end the country's overreliance on prisons.
Studies have found no evidence that keeping prisoners jailed for decades for nonviolent offenses reduces crime.
And reducing and eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana offenses reduces the detrimental impact of discriminatory criminalization.
Lakers Coach Phil Jackson did not seem too bothered that his triangle offense was reduced to a one-man show Sunday night.
Unfortunately for Donovan, his impact on offense was reduced as the game progressed, in part because he was asked to perform guard duty, helping his captain, Phil Neville, defend Spurs' dynamic wing, Gareth Bale.
By eliminating this opportunity for a misdemeanor offense while reducing crime rates, Californians have proven that a large percentage of people our justice system once identified as "criminal" pose no real threat to public safety.
The former N.F.L. head coach Dick Vermeil said there were fewer fullbacks in today's N.F.L. because there were fewer fullbacks in college, where the proliferation of spread offenses has reduced the position to an afterthought.
