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PEOPLE v. FLOYD

No. S105225.

1 Cal.Rptr.3d 885 (2003)

31 Cal.4th 179

72 P.3d 820

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Andre Rene FLOYD, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

July 21, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Conrad Petermann, Beverly Hills, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Marylou Hilberg for Tommy Lee Fryman as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Stan Cross and Patrick J. Whalen, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

BAXTER, J.

In this case we must decide whether Proposition 36, the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000, applies to defendants who were sentenced prior to the act's effective date of July 1, 2001, but whose judgments were not yet final as of that date. We conclude that the act's saving clause—which states that "[e]xcept as otherwise provided, the provisions of this act shall become effective July 1, 2001, and its provisions shall be applied prospectively...

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