Opinion

People v. Caddick

  • 160 Cal. App. 3d 46
  • 206 Cal. Rptr. 454
  • 1984 Cal. App. LEXIS 2519
Court
California Court of Appeal
Filed
Sep 14, 1984
Status
Published
Author
Blease
On the bench
Carr, Blease
Cited by
29 cases
Authority
More cited than 9.6%

The opinion

BLEASE, Acting P. J.

I concur in the result.

I concur in the result because the defendant was subject to the same criteria for credit in prison as in jail. So far as the record in this case is concerned, the defendant was not assigned to and did not do any work as a pretrial detainee. It is conceded that he received the one-third credit provided by Penal Code section 4019. That is the identical credit he would receive under Penal Code section 2933 as a prison inmate for whom no work is available. It provides: if a prison inmate “is . . . not assigned to a full-time [work] assignment . . . [he] shall receive no less credit than is provided under Section 2931,” to wit a maximum one-third credit. Thus, a pretrial detainee without work is entitled to the same credit as a prison inmate without work. That, of course, poses no equal protection problem.

I do note an odd twist in the strands of equal protection theory. In People v. Saffell (1979) 25 Cal.3d 223 [ 157 Cal.Rptr. 897 , 599 P.2d 92 ] the (MDSO) inmate was not entitled to equal credit because he was subject to *55 rehabilitation. In this case the majority say the pretrial detainee is not entitled to equal credit because he is not subject to rehabilitation.

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