People v. Caruso

[Opinion certified for partial publication. 1 ]

Counsel Arlin Armstrong, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Jay M. Bloom and Steven H. Zeigen, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Opinion

WIENER, Acting P. J.

—Effective January 1, 1983, the Legislature substantially revised the statutory scheme for sentence reductions (see Stats. 1982, ch. 1234) amending Penal Code sections 2930, 2931, 2932 and 4019, and adding sections 2933, 2934, and 2935. 2 Section 2933 now provides a prisoner with the opportunity to…