Crow v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Sentencing judgments that report only days spent in pre-sentence confinement and fail to expressly designate credit time earned shall be understood by courts and by the Department of Correction automatically to award the number of credit time days equal to the number of pre-sentence confinement days. In the event of any pre-sentence deprivation of credit time, the trial court must report it in the sentencing judgment. Because the omission of designation of the statutory credit time entitlement is thus corrected by this presumption, such omission may not be raised as an erroneous sentence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Portee v. State · Apt v. State

2. “From the trial court's entry that the defendant is entitled to "179 days of credit time," it is unclear whether "179" represents the number of pre-sentence days spent in confinement, the amount of credit time under Class I, or the amount of credit time following a reduction in credit time class or deprivation of credit time during pre-sentence confinement. If the number of days spent in pre-sentence confinement had been clearly indicated, an equal amount of additional credit time would be presumed. We find entry in this case, however, to be sufficiently ambiguous so as to constitute an erroneous sentence on the face of the judgment of conviction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Portee v. State

3. “'The defendant is given credit for 140 days pretrial confinement. (emphasis added)....[T)he defendant's sentencing judgment establishes that he is entitled to 140 days credit for time spent in pre-trial confinement plus 140 days of credit time.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Portee v. State