State v. Baskette

In these consolidated cases, defendant was convicted, based on guilty pleas, of various drug- and firearm-related offenses. In orally imposing sentence, the trial court indicated — with respect to all but one of defendant’s felony convictions1 — that defendant would be eligible for “earned time” credits but not alternative incarceration programs. The court did not make any findings on the reasons for that decision. However, the court’s written judgments denied defendant consideration for “any form of temporary leave from custody, reduction in sentence, work release, alternative incarceration…