California Court of Appeal

Trial court order crediting time plaintiff spent in prison before his release on parole to the parole discharge eligibility requirement is reversed where the plain language of the Penal Code section 3000.1 indicates that any part of the five-year parole discharge eligibility requirement cannot be satisfied by time spent in prison prior to release from confinement on parole.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/13/2009
• Published 03/13/2009

Judges

• MIHARA, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General of the State of California, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Anya M. Binsacca, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Amber N. Wipfler, Deputy Attorney General, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Keith Wattley, Under Appointment by the Sixth District, Appellate Program, for Respondent.