(a)Notwithstanding any other law, any person who is convicted of a felony offense listed in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5 shall accrue no more than 15 percent of worktime credit, as defined in Section 2933.
(b)The 15-percent limitation provided in subdivision (a) shall apply whether the defendant is sentenced under Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 1170) of Title 7 of Part 2 or sentenced under some other law. However, nothing in subdivision (a) shall affect the requirement of any statute that the defendant serve a specified period of time prior to minimum parole eligibility, nor shall any offender otherwise statutorily ineligible for credit be eligible for credit pursuant to this section.
(c)Notwithstanding Section 4019 or any other provision of law, the maximum credit that may be earned against a period of confinement in, or commitment to, a county jail, industrial farm, or road camp, or a city jail, industrial farm, or road camp, following arrest and prior to placement in the custody of the Director of Corrections, shall not exceed 15 percent of the actual period of confinement for any person specified in subdivision (a).
(d)This section shall only apply to offenses listed in subdivision (a) that are committed on or after the date on which this section becomes operative.
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19 in the last 5 years), 1995–2025 · leading case:
People v. Holford, 203 Cal. App. 4th 155 (Cal. Ct. App. 2012).
People v. Holford, 203 Cal. App. 4th 155 (Cal. Ct. App. 2012).
“” (Pen. Code, § 2933.1, subd. (a).) This was error because defendant’s conviction offense is not listed in Penal Code section 667.”
People v. McCoy, 208 Cal. App. 4th 1333 (Cal. Ct. App. 2012).
“(Pen. Code, § 2933.1.) 1 Both defendant and his attorney filed notices of appeal.”
In re Mohammad, 501 P.3d 635 (Cal. 2022).
“omitted, quoting Pen. Code, § 2933.1, subd. (a).) The issue in Reeves was whether an inmate convicted of both nonviolent and violent felonies was subject to the 15 percent credit limit.”
People v. Jones, 899 P.2d 1358 (Cal. 1995).
· cites it 2× “) I do not address the question of whether such felons, in the unlikely event of CRC commitment, could earn credits under Penal Code section 2933.”
People v. Garcia, 132 Cal. Rptr. 2d 694 (Cal. Ct. App. 2003).
“(Pen.Code, § 2933.1.) None of the crimes of which appellant was convicted are listed in Penal Code section 667.”
People v. Amaya, 239 Cal. App. 4th 379 (Cal. Ct. App. 2015).
“2 In a footnote, defendant asserts that, regardless of what subdivision the gang finding was made under, Penal Code section 2933.1 did not apply to him.”
People v. Van Buren, 93 Cal. App. 4th 875 (Cal. Ct. App. 2001).
“Penal Code section 2933.1 imposes a 15 percent limitation on worktime custody credits for prisoners convicted of violent felonies “listed in Section 667.”
People v. Sylvester, 58 Cal. App. 4th 1493 (Cal. Ct. App. 1997).
“Subdivision (a) of Penal Code section 2933.1 merely sets forth the category of defendants whose conduct credits are to be determined under *1497 Penal Code section 2933.”
Ward v. Brown, 891 F. Supp. 2d 1149 (E.D. Cal. 2012).
“Defendants contend that the agreement violated California Penal Code §§ 2933.1 and 667.5, subdivision (c), alleging that plaintiff’s Santa Clara County conviction required him to serve 85% of the seven year term.”
In Re Black, 124 Cal. Rptr. 2d 835 (Cal. Ct. App. 2002).
“We consider whether the 15 percent limitation on worktime credits for violent felonies (Pen.Code, § 2933.1) [1] applies to a nonviolent felony conviction respondent suffered over two years after his conviction for a violent felony offense.”
People v. Garcia, 107 Cal. App. 4th 1159 (Cal. Ct. App. 2003).
“(Pen. Code, § 2933.1.) None of the crimes of which appellant was convicted are listed in Penal Code section 667.”
(HC) Briscoe, III v. Eldridge (E.D. Cal. 2020).
· cites it 3× “) The court explained that it had miscalculated Petitioner's time 12 credits by applying the wrong statute, California Penal Code section 4019. (Id.) The actual statute 13 applicable to Petitioner was California Penal Code section 2933.”
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