In re NATHAN POPE
Where defendant pled guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter a nonviolent felony and two felony counts of alcohol related driving with admissions as to great bodily injury violent felonies he was subject to Penal Code Sec. 2933.1(a)'s limit on the amount of worktime credits that a defendant convicted of a violent felony may apply to reduce his sentence under Sec. 2933 to 15 percent of total sentence, even though trial court had stayed sentences as to the two violent felonies pursuant to Sec. 654's prohibition on multiple punishments for same offense. Sec. 2933.1(a), which provides that it applies to "any person who is convicted of" a violent felony notwithstanding any other law, clearly and unambiguously constituted an exception to Sec. 654 and applied to defendant's vehicular manslaughter conviction.
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