People v. Puckett CA2/6

DISCUSSION

When a parolee violates parole and the parole agency determines intermediate sanctions are not appropriate, it shall petition the court to revoke parole. (§ 3000.08, subd. (f).) If the

2 court finds the parolee violated parole, it may modify the parole conditions, incarcerate the parolee for up to 180 days in county jail, or refer the parolee to a reentry court or other evidence-based program. (§ 3000.08, subds. (f)(1)–(3), (g).) “However, ‘once a court finds that a lifetime parolee has violated conditions of parole or the law, a special rule applies’ and those options ‘ “do not exist.” ’ ” (People v. Reed (2024) 103 Cal.App.5th 43, 51 (Reed).) For such cases, subdivision (h) of section 3000.08 provides: “Notwithstanding any other law, if Section 3000.1 . . . applies to a person who is on parole and the court determines that the person has committed a violation of law or violated his or her conditions of parole, the person on parole shall be remanded to the custody of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the jurisdiction of the Board of Parole Hearings for the purpose of future parole consideration.” Here the issue is whether section 3000.1 applied to…