People v. Torrez

JUSTICE .HOOD,

dissenting.

¶59 Amber Lee Torrez spent more than four years confined before serving a sentence for any crime. In the end, the trial court allowed her to credit 86 of those 1579 days toward the sentence it imposed. The majority would afford her even less: If it could consider the- 86 days she did receive, its test would strip her of that credit as well. And more broadly, its holding seems to deny presen-tence confinement credit to every offender confined on multiple charges,

¶60 How does this counterintuitive result emerge? The answer in part is that in purporting to recite our…