Lloyd Billingsley has this article in the City Journal on the case of double murderer/torturer Daniel Marsh, now 21 but just short of 16 at the time of the crime. Originally, Yolo County, California prosecutors directly filed the case in adult court, as the law allowed at the time. Then Gov. Brown, fueled with Soros money, convinced the people of California to change their mind and decide that judges and not prosecutors should decide whether a case was appropriate for adult court or juvenile court. That was Proposition 57.

If a case is tried in juvenile court, the perpetrator cannot be kept incarcerated past age 25, no matter how heinous the crime.

Okay. In accordance with Proposition 57, the judge decided that this case was indeed one for adult court. That was obvious the whole time.

But on January 1, a legislative bill takes effect that contradicts the vote of the people and says that the Legislature, not judges, has decided that 14- and 15-year-old murderers will always be tried in juvenile court, with the resulting limit on sentence. Gov. Brown signed that bill.

Needless to say, we will be challenging the constitutionality of that bill. The irony is that those of us who opposed Proposition 57 must now cite it as higher authority than the product of our demented Legislature. It's a strange world, and an even stranger state.