People v. Valadez

Opinion by

JUDGE FREYRE

1 This appeal presents an issue of first impression: If a Colorado prison inmate commits a misdemeanor offense in prison, and the district court imposes a consecutive county jail sentence on the misdemeanor, which sentence is served first, the jail sentence or the remainder of the prison sentence? < Applying section 18-1.3-501(1)(c), C.R.8.2015, we hold that the prisoner must be remanded to county jail to serve the jail sentence first and then be transferred back to the Department of Corrections (DOC) to serve the remainder of the prison sentence. Therefore, we reverse…