People v. Hutton

PEÑA, J.

INTRODUCTION

*706As a result of the Criminal Justice Realignment Act of 2011 (Stats. 2011, ch. 15, § 1), numerous offenses previously punishable by specified terms in state prison are now punishable by serving that same term in local custody at the county jail. (People v. Vega (2014) 222 Cal.App.4th 1374, 1379, 166 Cal.Rptr.3d 506.) In this case, we consider what effect serving a term in the county jail rather than in prison, and being released on "sheriff's parole" instead of regular prison parole, has on entitlement to presentence credits and to the use of the jail commitment as a…