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PEOPLE, Respondent, v. Charles NELSON, Appellant.
Appellant's petition for review GRANTED.
The request for an order directing expanded publication of the opinion is denied.
The issues to be argued before this court shall be limited to whether consecutive sentences are mandatory under the three strikes law when the crimes occur on the same occasion and arise out of the same set of operative facts.
GEORGE, C.J., and MOSK, KENNARD, BAXTER, WERDEGAR, CHIN and BROWN, JJ., concur.
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Docket No: No. S053008.
Decided: May 29, 1996
Court: Supreme Court of California.
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