Massachusetts Appeals Court· 10/20/1980

Commonwealth v. Carter

Citations

411 N.E.2d 184
10 Mass. App. Ct. 618
1980 Mass. App. LEXIS 1362

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prisoner is entitled to credit for all jail time served before sentencing that relates to crime for which prisoner is sentenced
“statutory purpose [in providing jail credit] was to afford relief to persons who because of inability to obtain bail were held in custody”
“Any sentence being served concurrently with a sentence to which a jail credit is applied should receive the benefit of the same credit so that the sentence in fact retains a concurrent status”
consecutive sentences, single criminal episode

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Judges: Brown, Dreben, Kass

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