State v. Hamilton

OPINION

FIDEL, Judge.

Appellant Delores Ann Hamilton (defendant) was in custody when sentenced to imprisonment for burglary in the third degree. The date sentence was imposed counts as the first day of her sentence. See A.R.S. § 13-709(A). The issue in this appeal is whether the date sentence was imposed should also be counted in defendant’s presentence credit time.

Defendant was arrested for first-degree burglary on January 2, 1986. By plea agreement on April 10, 1986, she pled no contest to the charge of burglary in the third-degree. On April 19, 1986, defendant was released on secured bond.…