Supreme Court of California

A defendant may expressly waive entitlement to credits for time served under Penal Code section 2900.5, and such a waiver is enforceable when, in sentencing a defendant to a maximum term of imprisonment, a trial court conditions a grant of probation upon that waiver.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/19/2002
• Published 08/19/2002

Judges

•  KENNARD, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Gordon B. Scott, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Santa Rosa, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Laurence K. Sullivan and Seth K. Schalit, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.