Bailey v. State

I agree that the circuit court's decision should be affirmed, but I would hold that the State's position is correct-the 736 days of jail-time credit should be applied only to the sentence resulting from the charge on which the defendant was detained at the onset of the period of continuous custody. As the State argues, Bailey's period of continuous custody began with his arrest on the unrelated drug charges. He never bonded out on the drug charges. Although the facts in Jones v. State , 301 Ark. 510, 785 S.W.2d 217 (1990), are somewhat distinguishable, the supreme court held that the…