Wofford v. Super. Ct.
Annotate this CaseAfter being convicted of drug-related offenses, Lavina Wofford was sentenced under the Realignment Act to serve a portion of her prison sentence released into the community under the mandatory supervision of the probation department. Among the many conditions of her mandatory supervision, Wofford was required to obtain the superior court's consent before moving to another state. Apart from mandatory supervision requirements, a released offender who wants to transfer his or her supervision to another state must also obtain the approval of the California office that administers out-of-state transfer requests under the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision (the Compact or Interstate Compact). After she was released in the community under mandatory supervision, Wofford filed a motion requesting that she be permitted to submit an application to California's Interstate Compact office for a transfer of her supervision to another state. The court denied her request to apply to the Compact office, in part based on its conclusion that offenders serving mandatory supervision sentences are ineligible to apply for transfers under the Compact. The Court of Appeal concluded the trial court erred in ruling mandatory supervision releasees serving their sentences in the community under the Realignment Act were ineligible to apply for transfers under the Interstate Compact. Accordingly, the petition for writ of mandate was granted.
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