California Sentencing Guidelines 2025. The revised outlook projects steady, but slowing national economic growth into next year, with california job gains expected to remain relatively weak through 2025. This rule is intended to assist judges in sentencing in felony hate crime cases.

These rules apply to criminal cases in which the defendant is convicted of one or more offenses punishable as a felony by. In california, the maximum jail sentence for a misdemeanor is one year.