Can a convicted felon who has completed a felony sentence for a crime that has now been reduced to a misdemeanour under Proposition 47, petition for a recall of that sentence?

Proposition 47 also added a new resentencing provision, section 1170.18, which permits "a person 'currently serving' a felony sentence for an offense that is now a misdemeanor under Proposition 47 [to] petition for a recall of that sentence and request resentencing in accordance with the statutes that were added or amended by Proposition 47." (People v. Rivera, supra, 233 Cal.App.4th at p. 1092.) "Section 1170.18 also provides that persons who have completed felony sentences for offenses that would now

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