California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Newsome, 53 Cal.App.4th 1476, 62 Cal.Rptr.2d 574 (Cal. App. 1997):
6 The grant of review stated: "The issues to be argued before this court shall be limited to whether consecutive sentences are mandatory under the three strikes law when the crimes occur on the same occasion and arise out of the same set of operative facts." (People v. Nelson (May 29, 1996) 53 Cal.Rptr.2d 785, 917 P.2d 624.)
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