State v. Goar

POPOVICH, Chief Justice.

This appeal by the defendant, Jody Thomas Goar, from an unpublished decision of the court of appeals presents, in a slightly different context than previously presented, the oft-recurring issue of the amount of jail credit a defendant is entitled to receive against a prison sentence or, as here, a probationary jail term.

Defendant was arrested on February 6, 1989, by Duluth police on misdemeanor charges. During the booking search of defendant, police found a small amount of controlled substances (Valium and Tylenol containing codeine). On February 7 defendant was…