Matlock v. State

hOn January 6, 2015, appellant, Michael Ray Matlock, pleaded guilty to second-degree sexual assault and sexual indecency with a child and was sentenced to an aggregate term of 180 months’ imprisonment. The initial judgement of conviction entered by the trial court on January 26, 2015, allowed jail-time credit of 181 days.

On May 16, 2016, Matlock filed in the trial court a request for an amended sentencing order based on a pro se motion for jail-time credit. Matlock alleged that he was entitled to 547 days’ credit for his pretrial detention, which, according to Matlock, had extended from his…