People v. Whiteside

We must decide in this appeal whether a convicted criminal defendant, who is sentenced to prison after violating the terms of his probation, is entitled to sentence credit for time he spent in residence in a private drug treatment program as a condition of probation. Our answer turns on the construction and applicability of probation and sentence credit statutes, 1 as well as the constitutional guarantee against double jeopardy. 2 Because we conclude that the circuit court did not err in failing to award the claimed sentence credit under the circumstances of this case, we reverse the decision…