A lawyer from c wrote:
His sentence is 30 years to life. That’s a life sentence under CA law. It just means he is eligible for a parole hearing after serving 30 years but there is no guarantee he will be released. But also, what matters for SOL purposes is that he was charged with a one-strike offense. And the way that works is that he is charged with the crime—i.e., forcible rape—and then charged with the additional allegation bringing it under the one-strike law.
there are two different tiers of one-strike allegations, one set that brings a sex offense to a sentence of 25 years to life and another that brings them to 15 years to life.
my guess—and it’s a guess as I haven’t seen any of the charging documents—is that he was charged with and the jury found true allegations on the two rapes under 667.61(e)(6) which pertains to administering drugs to someone and then raping them. that would’ve made the sentence on each of the two rapes 15 years to life and thus 30 years to life total. (E)(4) also would provide the same penalty if the jury found he raped multiple victims (which it found)
I am apparently unable to read the "to life" part that is in fact in the article- thanks for clearing that up.

