People v. Stewart

We agree with Judge Burns that the sentence imposed should run consecutively with defendant’s earlier sentence, but disagree that, because the sentence was consecutive, no credit should be given for the 190 days defendant spent in the county jail awaiting sentencing.

We don’t agree that the granting of the presentence credit, under proper conditions, will destroy the validity of Michigan’s consecutive sentencing law. Our courts have consistently granted credit where the time spent in confinement awaiting trial and prior to the imposition of sentence "bear[s] an intimate and substantial…