State v. Tauiliili

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that consecutive sentences help “to deter future criminal behavior of the defendant, to insure public safety, and to assure just punishment for the crimes committed”
• stating that presen-tence credit is intended to ensure “equal treatment of all defendants whether or not they are incarcerated prior to conviction”
• explaining that statute “granting presentence credit... seeks to place an in-custody criminal defendant who cannot afford to post bail in the same position as his counterpart with bail money”
• noting that “discretionary use of consecutive sentences is properly imposed in order to deter future criminal behavior of the defendant, to insure public safety, and to assure just punishment for the crimes committed”
• “[W]hen consecutive sentences are imposed, credit for presentenee imprisonment is properly granted against only the aggregate of the consecutive sentence terms.”
• “Courts in other jurisdictions having similar statutes agree that a defendant who receives consecutive sentences is entitled to a presentenee credit only once against the aggregate of the consecutive terms.... ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).