California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Aguilar, B271453 (Cal. App. 2017):
The trial court determined that defendant was not eligible for relief under Proposition 47 due to his 2014 conviction for attempted murder, which is a super strike offense. (See 667, subd. (e)(2)(C)(iv)(IV) [covering "[a]ny homicide offense"].) Defendant challenges this ruling, asserting that Proposition 47's bar to relief for persons with a "prior [super strike] conviction" only applies if that conviction was incurred prior to the commission of the offense the defendant seeks to redesignate. This is a question of statutory interpretation that we review de novo. (People v. Prunty (2015) 62 Cal.4th 59, 71.)
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