Legal Opinion
In Re Johnson
California Supreme Court
Decided October 29, 1970No. Crim. 13672PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
PETERS, J.
Troy Johnson petitions for a writ of habeas corpus. He asserts the invalidity of his two concurrent 10-year minimum sentences, imposed in 1965 upon his conviction of two counts of selling marijuana with two priors. (Health & Saf. Code, § 11531.)
Petitioner was convicted in 1950 of a violation of the federal offense of acquiring marijuana without having paid the federal Marijuana Transfer Tax. (26 U.S.C. § 2593(a), now § 4744(a)(1).) Upon violating probation, he served six months in a federal correctional institution in Texas.
Petitioner was convicted in 1954 of possession of…
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