People v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions

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1. ““Penal Code section 4532, subdivision (b), provides that punishment for an escape violation is 16 months, 2 or 3 years, to be served consecutively. A consecutive term for escape is made mandatory. Although the term is mandated to be consecutive, it is not reasonably inferable the Legislature intended the specific full terms provided in the statute be applied consecutively. “In this instance, section 1170.1 applies in the calculation of the consecutive term required for escape. “Had the Legislature intended the full term for escape be served consecutively to another, it would have declared section 4532 as an exception from the sentencing requirements of section 1170.1, subdivision (a), and provided for the service of a full consecutive term, as it did with the adoption of Penal Code section 667.6, subdivision (d).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 117 Cal. App. 3d 309 - In Re Sims