What does Prop. 47 not do?

Prop. 47 does not give you back your gun rights if you lost these rights due to your conviction.[3094] Prop. 47 also does not remove the conviction from your record; it simply reduces it to a lesser offense.

Also, please note that getting your felony conviction reclassified or resentenced as a misdemeanor under Prop. 47 does NOT give you any legal rights to be compensated for any time that you served that is more than what you could have been sentenced to if you had been convicted of a misdemeanor originally.

It used to be true that you could use excess custody credits to offset restitution fines, but the Legislature changed that section of the Penal Code in July 2013 to say that custody credits cannot be used to lower restitution fines.[3095]

  1. 3094

    Cal. Penal Code § 1170.18(k).

  2. 3095

    People v. Morris, 242 Cal. App. 4th 94 (2015).