INTRODUCTION - California Courts

(1976) 18 Cal.3d 796, 801 [probation is “an alternative form of punishment in those cases when it can be used as a correctional tool”]; Fetters v. County of Los Angeles (2016) 243 Cal.App.4th 825, 837 [“Both California and federal courts … regard probation as a ‘form of punishment’ ”]; People v. Delgado ................
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