Legal Opinion

Jones v. State

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided March 21, 1989No. 88-167PublishedCited by 24 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

*369URBIGKIT, Justice.

Appellant Charles Boyd Jones, in two stated issues, presents the propriety of a sentence which effectively gave him a minimum sentence that is longer than his maximum sentence as to whether:

[A] sentencing judge is constitutionally required to give an indigent defendant full credit against both his minimum and maximum sentences for time served in presentence confinement.

[T]he district court erred in concluding that it lacked discretion to credit Appellant’s minimum sentence with the time spent in presentencing incarceration.

The State, as appellee, added a third issue asking…

2Cases cited23 opinions

  1. Griffin v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
  2. Bearden v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  3. Williams v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  4. Tate v. ShortSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  5. State v. PhelanWashington Supreme Court · 1983

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3Cited by24 opinions

  1. Renfro v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1990
  2. Bitz v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2003
  3. Swett v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2018
  4. Martinez v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2006
  5. Cohee v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2005

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