How have courts interpreted section 667, subdivision (a) of the Criminal Code?

Authority for this conclusion may be found in People v. Ellis, supra, 195 Cal.App.3d 334, 240 Cal.Rptr. 708, in which the appellant complained that a section 667, subdivision (a) enhancement was erroneously imposed on her as a term of a plea bargain since the prior conviction on which the enhancement was based did not comply with the statutory requirement that any offense which was not a California offense must contain all the elements of a comparable

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