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IN RE YOUNG

No. S106706.

12 Cal.Rptr.3d 48 (2004)

87 P.3d 797

32 Cal.4th 900

In re Ronnie E. YOUNG on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California

April 15, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David H. Goodwin, Los Angeles, for Petitioner Ronnie E. Young.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Paul D. Gifford, Assistant Attorney General, Susan Duncan Lee, Julie L. Garland and Heather L. Bushman, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent the People.

CHIN, J.

We must decide whether the Director of Corrections' discretion to reduce a prisoner's sentence up to 12 months for "perform[ing] a heroic act in a life-threatening situation" (Pen.Code,1 § 2935), is subject to the "Three Strikes" law's limitation on postsentence credits to 20 percent of the prisoner's sentence. (§§ 667, subd. (c)(5) (hereinafter section 667(c)(5)); 1170.12, subd. (a)(5).)

We conclude that...

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