Legal Opinion
In Re Oluwa
California Court of Appeal
Decided January 24, 1989No. B035116PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
KLEIN, P. J.
Petitioner Ras Adisa Gamba Oluwa (Oluwa) seeks writ review of a policy change of the California Department of Corrections (CDC) 1 which denied certain life term prisoners the benefit of work time credits provided for in Penal Code section 2933 2 and limiting such prisoners to behavior and participation credit under section 2931.
Because we conclude persons serving sentences of 15 years to life for second degree murder are not eligible to receive the 1-for-l custody credits enacted by the Legislature in 1983 after the passage of Proposition 7, but only l-for-2, the petition…
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