Is Proposition 8 a single subject subject to the single subject rule?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Valencia, 220 Cal.Rptr.3d 230, 3 Cal.5th 347, 397 P.3d 936 (Cal. 2017):

Brosnahan v. Brown (1982) 32 Cal.3d 236, 242245, 186 Cal.Rptr. 30, 651 P.2d 274 ( Brosnahan ).) This initiative affected numerous areas of our criminal law: restitution awards, evidentiary standards, bail, sentencing practices, diminished capacity defenses, plea bargaining, and more. The petitioners in Brosnahan , claiming that the initiative violated the single-subject rule, argued that "the complexity of Proposition 8 may have led to confusion or deception among voters, who were assertedly uninformed regarding the

[397 P.3d 976]

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