Supreme Court of California

In a prosecution for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, causing injury and driving with an unlawful blood-alcohol level causing injury, and gross vehicular manslaughter, and trial court's sentence of six years for the gross vehicular manslaughter conviction, imposition but stay of execution of a sentence of five years for each of the driving-while-under-the-influence offenses, court of appeals' reversal of trial court's grant of defendant's petition for habeas relief challenging the calculation of his worktime credits is affirmed as defendant is subject to the limitations imposed by section 2933.1(a), notwithstanding the circumstance that execution of sentence for the qualifying offenses has been stayed pursuant to section 654.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/19/2010
• Published 08/19/2010

Judges

• GEORGE

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• S. Michelle May, Bill Lockyer