Breeden v. New Jersey Department of Corrections

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

O’HERN, J.

This case concerns the question whether another state’s prison sentence, expressly intended to be concurrent with a prior uncompleted New Jersey sentence, is to be credited as time served against the uncompleted New Jersey sentence even though served in the foreign state. The New Jersey sentence had been interrupted when the offender escaped to a foreign state and committed a crime there that resulted in the offender’s conviction and sentence in the foreign state. We hold that the determination whether New Jersey sentences are consecutive or…