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Is a New York prisoner entitled to receive credit for time spent in detention in another state while under a New York warrant?

NY Defender Digest

| February 27, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2002 Aspen Publishers, Inc. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

PL 70.30(3), the 'jail time credit' section, entities an inmate to credit against a New York sentence for time spent in custody on charges which culminate in an acquittal or dismissal. Thus, if a defendant is held in pretrial detention in New York upon, for example, two separate charges, one of which ultimately results in an acquittal or dismissal and the second a conviction, the inmate would be entitled to credit upon the dismissed or acquitted charge, measured from the time he was first held on that charge.

But what if the pretrial detention for which the inmate seeks credit occurred in another state (or federal custody)? Is the prisoner entitled to receive credit …

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