SACRAMENTO — A federal judge on Thursday struck down (.pdf) provisions in Proposition 9, the 2008 ballot initiative known as Marsy’s Law, that would have barred accused parole violators from automatically receiving state-appointed counsel in revocation hearings.
Senior U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton said that a 2003 federal court-approved settlement between the Schwarzenegger administration and state parolees trumps Prop 9 under the Supremacy Clause.
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