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Sentencing courts given flexibility to downgrade enhancements

In People v. Tirado, the Supreme Court today holds a statute gives superior courts the choice not only to strike or not strike a sentencing enhancement, but also to impose a lesser enhancement in a stricken one’s place, even if the prosecution never charged the lesser enhancement.