Case Name: Anthony GARDNER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2006-11-01
Citations: 941 So. 2d 474
Docket Number: No. 3D06-519
Parties: Anthony GARDNER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before WELLS, CORTIÑAS, and ROTHENBERG, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 941
Pages: 474–475

Head Matter:
Anthony GARDNER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 3D06-519.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Nov. 1, 2006.
Anthony Gardner, in proper person.
Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, and Jennifer Falcone Moore, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Before WELLS, CORTIÑAS, and ROTHENBERG, JJ.

Opinion:
ROTHENBERG, Judge.
The defendant, Anthony Gardner ("Gardner"), appeals the denial of his motion to correct illegal sentence filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a), in which Gardner sought jail time credit for time spent in a residential drug treatment program while on probation and as a special condition to his probation. We affirm.
Section 921.161(1), Florida Statutes (2005), provides:
A sentence of imprisonment shall not begin to run before the date it is imposed, but the court imposing a sentence shall allow a defendant credit for all of the time she or he spent in the county jail before sentence. The credit must be for a specified period of time and shall be provided for in the sentence.
The Florida Supreme Court in Tal-Mason v. State, 515 So.2d 738 (Fla.1987), interpreted section 921.161(1), Florida Statutes, to apply to any period of time "served prior to conviction in any institution serving as the functional equivalent of a county jail," and interpreted "the functional equivalent of a county jail" as not to include time spent in a drug rehabilitation facility as a condition of probation. Id. at 740; see also State v. Cregan, 908 So.2d 387, 389 (Fla.2005); Pennington v. State, 398 So.2d 815, 816 (Fla.1981); Molina v. State, 867 So.2d 645, 645 (Fla. 3d DCA 2004). Affirmed.