People v. Medina
People v. Medina
Opinion of the Court
The district court denied the defendant’s request in a Crim. P. 35(b) proceeding for credit for presentence detention against a sentence of life imprisonment. The defendant has appealed, and we affirm.
On January 31, 1971 the defendant was arrested under a charge of first-degree murder. He was denied bail and was confined until his trial, at the conclusion of which the jury returned a verdict of guilty and fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. On January 2, 1972 the trial judge so sentenced the defendant. By request filed on April 20, 1978 the defendant asked for an amended mittimus to reflect the presen-tence incarceration of 11 months and five days. The district court denied the request on May 12,1978, and the case is here having been transferred from the court of appeals.
This case was consolidated for oral argument with People v. Jones, Colo., 604 P.2d 679, announced contemporaneously with
For the information of department of corrections, we state that the presentence incarceration of the defendant was 11 months and five days.
For the reasons there expressed, the judgment is affirmed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado v. Gerald Mercy MEDINA
- Status
- Published