Legal Opinion
In re Efstathiou
California Court of Appeal
Decided November 4, 2011No. C067807PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BUTZ, J.
This case concerns a constitutional challenge to an amendment of Penal Code section 2933.6. (Pen. Code, § 2933.6, subd. (a); hereafter, section 2933.6(a) or the section 2933.6(a) amendment.)1 That amendment, effective January 25, 2010, makes prison gang members, who are placed in an administrative segregation unit upon validation, ineligible to earn sentence reduction conduct credits during such placement.
Through a petition for writ of habeas corpus, petitioner Christopher Efstathiou challenges this amendment on ex post facto and procedural due process grounds.2
We shall deny…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Superintendent, Mass. Correctional Institution at Walpole v. HillSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Weaver v. GrahamSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- California Department of Corrections v. MoralesSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Lynce v. MathisSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
- People v. CromerCalifornia Supreme Court · 2001
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Kernan v. HinojosaSupreme Court of the United States · 2016
- In re FernandezCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2013
- In re CabreraCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2013
- Antonio Hinojosa v. Connie GipsonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2015
- In re AlvarezCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2014
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