New Jersey v. Joe

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Although New Jersey prosecutors lodged an interstate detainer with New York officials on August 12, 2011, defendant William Joe was not transferred to New Jersey custody until after he was sentenced for the New York charges. Defendant pleaded guilty to the narcotics charges in New Jersey and sought jail credits for the time he spent in pre-sentence custody in New York. The trial court denied the credits sought, and sentenced defendant to two five-year prison terms subject to a twenty-one-month period of parole ineligibility. The sentences were to be served concurrently to each other and to any sentence defendant was serving outside of New Jersey. In this appeal, the issue this case presented for the Supreme Court's review was whether incarceration outside of New Jersey on out-of-state charges entitled defendant to jail credit. The Court answered that question in the negative. View "New Jersey v. Joe" on Justia Law