Supreme Court of California

In a petition for review challenging the Court of Appeal's decision to apply former Penal Code section 4019 retroactively, the court's decision is reversed where: 1) Penal Code section 4019 applied prospectively, meaning that qualified prisoners in local custody first became eligible to earn credit for good behavior at the increased rate beginning on the statute's operative date; and 2) the equal protection clauses of the federal and state constitutions do not require retroactive application.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/18/2012
• Published 06/18/2012

Judges

• WERDEGAR

Court

• Supreme Court of California

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