Supreme Court of California

The Director of Corrections' discretion, under Penal Code section 2935, to reduce a prisoner's sentence up to 12 months for "performing a heroic act in a life-threatening situation" is not subject to the Three Strikes law's 20 percent limitation on postsentence credits.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/15/2004
• Published 04/15/2004

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  David H. Goodwin, Los Angeles, for Petitioner Ronnie E. Young.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Paul D. Gifford, Assistant Attorney General, Susan Duncan Lee, Julie L. Garland and Heather L. Bushman, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent the People.