State v. Harvey

The opinion of the court was delivered by

ARIEL A. RODRÍGUEZ, J.S.C.

(temporarily assigned).

We affirm the denial of defendant’s motion for jail credit for days he spent in custody pending sentence after a parole warrant was lodged. Like the trial judge, we conclude that that confinement relates to a prior sentence and is properly credited to the parole violation term.

On August 12,1991, defendant was arrested in Pleasantville and charged with third degree possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute or dispense while within 1,000 feet of school property, N.J.S.A. 2C:35-7, and third degree…