In Re Gomez

Opinion

IKOLA, J.

California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (the Department), by Ron Barnes, warden of the California Correctional Center, petitions for a writ of supersedeas. This petition presents the question of whether Penal Code section 2933.1, subdivision (a) (section 2933.1(a)), 1 limits the postsentence credits that can be accrued under sections 2933 and 2933.3 when a criminal defendant has been convicted of a “ ‘violent felony’ ” (§ 667.5, subd. (c)), but is not serving a sentence pursuant to the violent felony conviction because such sentence was stayed pursuant to…