PEOPLE v. LOPER

No. S211840.

60 Cal.4th 1155 (2015)

184 Cal. Rptr. 3d 715

343 P.3d 895

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JAMES ALDEN LOPER, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

March 5, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond M. DiGuiseppe , under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Nora E. Wilson for Justice Now as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland , Assistant Attorney General, Steven T. Oetting and Lise S. Jacobson , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

Penal Code section 1170, subdivision (e) (section 1170(e))1 authorizes certain prison authorities to recommend that the superior court recall a previously imposed sentence because the prisoner is now terminally ill or medically incapacitated...

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