United States v. Riggins
United States v. Riggins
Opinion of the Court
ORDER
This cause is now before the Court on Defendant’s Motion To Be Granted Credit For Time on Bond As “In Custody” Time under 18 U.S.C. § 3585 filed herein June 4, 1993.
Defendant spent approximately 121 days on bond before being incarcerated to begin her sentence. 18 U.S.C. § 3585(b) provides that “[a] defendant shall be given credit toward the service of a term of imprisonment for any time he has spent in official detention prior to the date the sentence commences * * Defendant claims that the time she spent on bond constitutes time that she was “in custody” and cites several Supreme Court cases to that effect. She, therefore, contends that this “in custody” time should be credited against her sentence of incarceration.
The Supreme Court cases cited by Defendant, to the extent the cases are relevant at all to her claim, state that a defendant is “in custody” while on bond or on parole only for purposes of challenging a conviction under federal habeas corpus statutes. The Supreme Court has never addressed whether being on bond represents “official detention” for purposes of credit toward sentence under § 3585 nor the predecessor statute previously codified at 18 U.S.C. § 3568. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the former Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals have directly addressed this question. Both Polakoff v. United States, 489 F.2d 727 (5th Cir. 1974), and Spinola v. United States, 941 F.2d 1528 (11th Cir. 1991), directly hold that a defendant shall not be given credit for time served on bond. “The ‘custody’ contemplated by Section 3568
Therefore, it is ORDERED by this Court that Defendant’s said motion filed herein June 4, 1993, be, and the same is hereby, DENIED.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- United States v. Tammy Lynn RIGGINS
- Status
- Published