Legal Opinion
In Re Thompson
California Court of Appeal
Decided September 18, 1985No. F005090PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BEST, J.
In this original proceeding upon application for writ of habeas corpus we must determine whether a prisoner’s indeterminate life sentence may be tolled until completion of a subsequently imposed determinate term for crimes committed in prison while serving the life term. We hold that service of the life sentence may not be interrupted or tolled pending completion of the determinate term.
Procedural and Factual Statement
On September 19, 1975, the Orange County Superior Court sentenced petitioner to state prison for life with possibility of parole upon petitioner’s conviction of…
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