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California Lifers Covered by Tolling Statute
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1998, page 24
The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that California prisoners serving sentences of life with the possibility of parole fall within California Civil Procedure Code § 352(a)(3), which tolls the statute of limitations for persons "in execution under the sentence of a criminal court for a term less ...
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