In re the Personal Restraint of Costello

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Dwyer, J.

— An offender sentenced to a term of confinement has both a constitutional and a statutory right to receive credit for all confinement time served before sentencing. However, an offender serving multiple consecutive sentences is not entitled to have credit for a discrete period of confinement applied to each consecutive sentence, as this would result in a multiple award of the credit. Petitioner Tony Costello filed this personal restraint petition challenging the Department of Corrections’ (DOC) refusal to apply credit to each of two consecutive sentences for time he served in the…