Legal Opinion

In Re Maes

California Court of Appeal

Decided June 22, 2010No. C062967PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion

CANTIL-SAKAUYE, J.

Penal Code section 2933 1 allows state prisoners who participate in qualifying work, training, and educational programs the privilege of earning postsentence conduct credit against their sentences. (Id., subd. (a) [the statute refers to this credit as “worktime credit”].) Section 2933.05 authorizes postsentence credit for a prisoner’s successful completion of specific program performance objectives in approved rehabilitative programming. (Id., subd. (a).) However, section 2933.2, subdivision (a) provides that “any person who is convicted of murder . . . shall not…

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3Cited by4 opinions

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