State v. Brown

¶ 1. This is a sentence credit case resembling the Alphonse and Gaston cartoon. More precisely, when an offender is on a parole hold in a different sovereignty that has not acted to revoke parole, should the circuit court grant sentence credit in Wisconsin for the time the offender spent in presentence confinement in Wisconsin? Or, may the Wisconsin court deny credit on the grounds that the foreign sovereignty may yet act to give credit in that state and, if it does, then the offender would be receiving double credit? We conclude that until the other sovereignty has actually acted on whether…