PEOPLE v. VAN BUREN

No. B144839.

113 Cal.Rptr.2d 510 (2001)

93 Cal.App.4th 875

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Leodes VAN BUREN, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Six.

Review Denied January 23, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne C. Tobin, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Acting Chief Assistant Attorney General, Marc E. Turchin, Acting Senior Assistant Attorney General, William T. Harter, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Jeffrey A. Hoskinson, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


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 Buren was convicted of second degree robbery. (...

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