Supreme Court of California

State prisoners serving a sentence that combines consecutive terms for violent and nonviolent offenses are subject to the credit restriction imposed by Penal Code section 2933.1(a) for the entire sentence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/09/2005
• Published 05/09/2005

Judges

• WERDEGAR, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Robert M. Foster, Laura Whitcomb Halgren, Steven T. Oetting, David Delgado-Rucci and Lynne G. McGinnis, Deputy Attorneys General, for Appellant Department of Corrections.


• For Appellees:
  
• David K. Rankin, San Diego, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Suzanne Rothlisberger, Long Beach, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Respondent James Greebe Reeves.