State v. Judson

OPINION

COATS, Chief Judge.

After pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated (DWI),1 Norman R. Judson asked the district court to order him, as a condition of his release, to enroll in residential alcohol treatment in Washington state. The court agreed and at sentencing granted Judson twenty-one days of confinement credit-enough to satisfy the statute's twenty-day mandatory minimum sentence for second offenders-for the time he spent in alcohol treatment.

The state argues that the court erred by awarding Judson Nygren credit 2 for the time he spent in treatment because the court's order…