Supreme Court of California

State prison confinement prior to the reversal of a conviction ought not be viewed as presentence custody, and credit accrual should be calculated in accordance with petitioner's ultimate postsentence status.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/03/2003
• Published 04/03/2003

Judges

• BROWN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Elizabeth A. Courtenay, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Los Angeles, for Petitioner Pamela C. Martinez.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Paul D. Gifford, Assistant Attorney General, Susan Duncan Lee, Matthew D. Mandelbaum and Diann Sokoloff, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent the People.