Legal Opinion
People v. Van Buren
California Court of Appeal
Decided November 7, 2001No. B144839PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
PERREN, J.
Penal Code section 2933.1 imposes a 15 percent limitation on worktime custody credits for prisoners convicted of violent felonies “listed in Section 667.5.”1 Here, we decide that section 2933.1 incorporates subsequent amendments to section 667.5, not only the version in effect when section 2933.1 was enacted.
Leodes Van Burén was convicted of second degree robbery. (§211.) He admitted a prior conviction for discharging a firearm at an inhabited dwelling (§ 246), which qualified as a strike (§§ 667, subds. (b)-(i), 1170.12) and *878as a serious felony (§ 667, subd. (a)). Van Burén…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- People v. JonesCalifornia Supreme Court · 1993
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- People v. Superior Court (Douglass)California Supreme Court · 1979
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3Cited by11 opinions
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