North Carolina Criminal Law

There are about 10,000 people on post-release supervision (PRS) in North Carolina. Some of them get charged with a new crime. That new charge usually prompts the issuance of a […]

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My colleague Jamie Markham and I have received quite a few questions lately about jail credit for consolidated sentences. Jamie has written several blog posts over the years explaining the […]

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Suppose a defendant is being held on two charges, Charge A from County A and Charge B from County B. He was arrested for both at the same time and […]

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I get at least one jail credit question almost every day. How jail credit is tabulated and applied can be as important as the sentence itself in determining how long […]

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When imposing a split sentence, the court has a choice to make about what to do with whatever pretrial jail credit the defendant might have in the case. Apply it […]

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When a person has pretrial jail credit shared between multiple charges, and those charges result in consecutive sentences, the shared jail credit gets applied only once. Does it matter which […]

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A legislative session wouldn’t be complete without a new jail credit rule for confinement in response to violation (CRV).

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When a person has so much jail credit that he has served his entire sentence of imprisonment, may he nonetheless be sentenced to probation? In other words, may a court sentence […]

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Two revisions to North Carolina’s primary jail credit statute, G.S. 15-196.1, will kick in on December 1, 2015. Both of them benefit defendants.

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If a defendant is arrested on Monday, detained all week, and sentenced on Friday, how many days of jail credit does he get?

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