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California: State Prisoner Cannot Serve Concurrent Sentence in County Jail

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2014 published in Prison Legal News February, 2014, page 25
Filed under: Sentencing. Location: California.
On February 15, 2013, the California Court of Appeal held that when a sentence that otherwise would have been served in a county jail is ordered to run concurrent to a sentence already being served in state prison, the entire sentence must be served in prison.

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