People v. Arnold

Opinion

BAXTER, J.

In this case we interpret the scope and effect of a defendant’s waiver of custody credits—commonly referred to as a “Johnson waiver” (People v. Johnson (1978) 82 Cal.App.3d 183 [147 Cal.Rptr. 55] (Johnson)— which enables a sentencing court to reinstate a defendant on probation after *298he or she has violated probation, conditioned on service of an additional county jail term, as an alternative to imposing a state prison sentence. We conclude that when a defendant knowingly and intelligently waives jail time custody credits after violating probation in order to be reinstated on…