P. v. Richards
Defendants who committed their crimes on or after October 1, 2011, are eligible for presentence conduct credits calculated on the basis of two days of conduct credit for every two days of actual custody. (Pen. Code, § 4019, subds. (b), (c) & (f).)[1] Defendants who committed their crimes before October 1, 2011, are eligible for conduct credits at the previous rate of two days for every four days in custody. (Id. subd. (h).) Defendant, who committed his crime in April 2011, appeals from a judgment and contends that affording him a lower level of conduct credits solely because he committed his crime before October 1, 2011, violates his constitutional right to the equal protection of the laws. We conclude that the right to equal protection does not prevent the Legislature from limiting the increased level of presentence conduct credits to detainees who committed their crimes on or after the October 1, 2011, operative date of the statute. We therefore affirm the judgment.
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