Legal Opinion
Brown v. Brittain
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided May 15, 1989No. 88SA150PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VOLLACK, Justice.
The question in this case is whether a prisoner who was mistakenly released before serving a complete sentence is entitled to have credited against his sentence the time he subsequently served in another state for convictions unrelated to the original sentence. The Crowley County District Court held that Dewaine Everett Brown was entitled to credit against his Colorado sentence for time he served in Louisiana after he was mistakenly released. We reverse.
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Brown was sentenced on March 30, 1981 by the Arapahoe County District Court to a term of seven years in the Department of…
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