People v. Chattaway

The defendant was convicted on a plea of guilty of the crime of conspiring to utter and publish a false instrument. He appeals on leave granted from an order denying his petition for clarification of his sentence. He claims that he was improperly denied credit for the time he spent in the county jail awaiting trial. In response, the people argue that the defendant received credit for the time he was in jail against the sentence imposed in another case and he is not entitled to “duplicate” credit against the sentence imposed in this case.

The relevant facts are:

In both cases at the conclusion…