Castro v. District Court of the Tenth Judicial District

In denying the petitioner credit for 284 days of presentence confinement against a two year sentence to the county jail, the respondent court construed section 16-11-306, C.R.S.1973 (1978 Repl.Vol. 8, 1982 Supp.), to require credit only in the case of offenders sentenced to a correctional facility supervised by the department of corrections. The petitioner does not claim the respondent court’s refusal to grant him credit violates equal protection of the laws, U.S. Const.Amend. XIV; Colo. Const. Art. II, Sec. 25, but instead argues for a statutory construction that requires presentenee…