Supreme Court of California

The savings clause of the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000 indicates the Act was not intended to apply retroactively to defendants who were sentenced prior to the Act's effective date, but whose judgments were not yet final as of that date.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/21/2003
• Published 07/21/2003

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Conrad Petermann, Beverly Hills, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Marylou Hilberg for Tommy Lee Fryman as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Stan Cross and Patrick J. Whalen, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.