2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 31 - Criminal Procedure
Section 20 Sentencing
Section 31-20-12 Credit for time prior to conviction.
31-20-12. Credit for time prior to conviction.
A person held in official confinement on suspicion or charges of the commission of a felony shall, upon conviction of that or a lesser included offense, be given credit for the period spent in presentence confinement against any sentence finally imposed for that offense.
History: 1953 Comp., 40A-29-25, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 221, 2; and recompiled as 1953 Comp., 40A-29-48, by Laws 1977, ch. 216, 16.
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