Error and/or relief
Assembly Bill No. 1950 (2019–2020 Reg. Sess.) applied retroactively to shorten the defendant’s probation term from four years to two years, thereby retroactively depriving the trial court of jurisdiction to revoke his probation after passage of the two-year mark and rendering the revocation and termination of his probation invalid. [GARY NOTE: Penal Code sections 1203a for misdemeanors and 1203.1 for felonies, and there are exceptions to the one-year and two-year periods mentioned in those sections, so be sure to look at the actual applicable statute if the issue arises.]
First Holding:
Acts committed after the statutory shortening of the length of the probation term do not constitute violations of probation.
Authority:
AB 1950
People v. Faial (2025) 18 Cal.5th 199