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California Proposition 36 Drug Program Participation Credits Apply Against Subsequent Probation Revocation
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2008, page 40
California Proposition 36 Drug Program Participation Credits Apply Against Subsequent Probation Revocation
The California Court of Appeal, Second District, held that when a prisoner convicted of drug possession but granted Proposition 36 probation to attend a drug treatment program in lieu of incarceration violates his probation terms, the time he ...
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