California Court of Appeal

While worktime credits are limited to 15 percent for a defendant who "is convicted" and sentenced for a violent felony under Penal Code section 667.5, this limitation does not apply to the term imposed for a nonviolent offense charged and proven in a separate case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/05/2002
• Published 09/05/2002

Judges

• STEVENS, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Paul D. Gifford, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Darrell Lepkowsky, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Timothy C. Foote, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Susan E. Myster, Deputy Attorney General, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew Zwerling, L. Richard Braucher, Richmond, First District Appellate Project, for Respondent.