State v. Wills
Annotate this CaseThis appeal involved a Defendant who was sentenced by two different judges at different times in two criminal cases. At issue was how to properly credit Defendant with time served on both cases. The record showed that 498 days of Defendant's presentence confinement qualified as credit in either case. Defendant asserted that the sentencing judge in the first case erred in crediting all 498 days to his one-year sentence and that the sentencing judge in the second case erred in failing to credit him with the would-be remaining time. The Supreme Court reversed in part and remanded, holding (1) because a court cannot credit more time to a sentence than the length of the sentence, the court improperly credited all 498 days of Defendant's time served to his one-year sentence in the first case; and (2) on remand, the court should credit any applicable remaining time to Defendant's sentences in the second case.
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