When a defendant is convicted of murder, and has a prior strike conviction, can he be sentenced to a second life term?

When a defendant is convicted of willful, deliberate and premeditated murder, and has a prior strike conviction, the sentence-doubling requirement of the Three Strikes law in section 667, subdivision (e)(1), does not allow for imposition of a second life term. (People v. Jefferson (1999) 21 Cal.4th 86, 99.) Rather, "[b]ecause section 3046 requires that a defendant sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole serve 'at least seven calendar years or . . . a term as established pursuant to any other section of law that establishes a [greater] minimum period of confinement' before

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