A.E. v. State

SULLIVAN, Justice.

In this delinquency case, A.E. was sentenced to a fixed term of 18 months. Reversing the trial court, the Court of Appeals held that he was entitled to credit against that 18-month term for the 99 days he was confined between the dates of his arrest and his dispositional hearing. In accordance with another case we decide today, J.D. v. State, we hold that the trial court was not required to credit the time served in pre-disposition confinement against his determinate sentence.

Background

On June 28, 2004, 15-year-old A.E. was arrested and alleged to be delinquent for having…