If a defendant is arrested on Monday, detained all week, and sentenced on Friday, how many days of jail credit does he get?
sentence administration
Two Recent Cases on Sentence Administration
Two recent cases—one from the North Carolina Court of Appeals and one from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit—resolve questions of sentence administration that I’ve written about in the past. The first case is McDonald v. N.C. Department of Correction, __ N.C. App. __ (March 20, 2012), and it deals with … Read more