United States v. Hankton

OPINION OF THE COURT

GIUNTINI, Judge: *

The appellant was placed in pretrial confinement on 15 September 1989 and was released by the military magistrate on 25 September 1989. The military judge ordered that the appellant be given credit for a total of thirteen days of pretrial confinement: ten days for ordinary pretrial confinement and three days because of the tardy magistrate’s review.1 The credit should have been for fourteen days. See United States v. Allen, 17 M.J. 126 (C.M.A.1984) (accused is entitled to day-for-day credit for time spent in pretrial confinement); United States v. New, 23…