Opinion ID: 836201
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Text: As a simple illustration of how the statutory scheme operates to give credit against a parole violator's original maximum sentence, consider this example. An offender is sentenced to 1 to 10 years in prison. He is granted parole after serving his minimum sentence. No time remains on his minimum sentence, and 9 years remain on his maximum sentence. After 2 years on parole, he commits an act that gives rise to a new felony charge. After a week of dead time during which he is not serving time against his prior sentence, he is arrested on the new felony charge and again begins serving the remaining portion of the prior sentence. At that time, he has 7 years remaining on his maximum. He spends 1 year in jail awaiting trial, conviction, and sentencing on the new offense. Accordingly, on his sentencing date, 6 years remain of his original maximum term. He receives a 2- to 5-year term of imprisonment for the new offense. Under MCL 791.234(3), the DOC calculates the new parole eligibility date by adding the original minimum term and the new minimum term. Because the offender has already served his entire original minimum term, his new parole eligibility date is 2 years from the date of sentencing on the new offense. The DOC calculates the new maximum discharge date by adding the new maximum sentence imposed by the court (5 years) to the offender's original maximum sentence (10 years). Thus, the offender's new maximum term is 15 years. Because he has already served 4 years of his original maximum sentence, the offender's new maximum term will expire 11 years from the date the new sentence was imposed.