Jones v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
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…
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