What is the definition of a "full term" under the California Full Term Amendment?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from In re Canady, 272 Cal.Rptr.3d 88, 57 Cal.App.5th 1022 (Cal. App. 2020):

credits. A "full term" as defined by the Amendment specifically excludes enhancements, consecutive sentences, and alternative sentences; the Amendment does not mention conduct credits in that definition. Had the Proposition's drafters intended to depart from the common legal usage of "full term" and the commonsense, everyday definition of "full term" as a term that is full, as opposed to reduced (see People v. Valencia (2017) 3 Cal.5th 347, 373, 220 Cal.Rptr.3d 230, 397 P.3d 936 [refusing to attribute to the average voter an understanding of legal terminology that he or she more likely understood otherwise] ), they could have easily done so.

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