Court Opinion

ID: 9618147
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 05:07:39.163322+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:56:22.757889
License: Public Domain

Justice BEATTY,
concurring in a separate opinion.
I fully concur in the majority’s opinion and write separately to further clarify McGrier.
It is important to recognize that the sentence in McCkier was a no parole straight sentence of three years, not a split sentence. No part of McGrier’s sentence was suspended; therefore, the McGrier decision did not involve a CSP incarceration as a result of a probation revocation.
McGrier initially served eighty-five percent of his no parole sentence and was released to CSP. He failed to successfully complete CSP and was re-incarcerated multiple times. The McGrier decision determined that the total period of incarceration for McGrier’s CSP violations could not exceed the remaining fifteen percent of his sentence. The McGrier opinion used the phrase “unsuspended portion” because the remaining *272fifteen percent was in fact unsuspended. Although McGrier was released after having served eighty-five percent of his sentence, good time credits could not be used to eliminate the availability of the unsuspended fifteen percent for CSP purposes. See S.C.Code Ann. § 24-13-210(F) (2007) (“No credits earned pursuant to this section may be applied in a manner which would prevent full participation in the Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services’ prerelease or community supervision program as provided in Section 24-21-560.”).
Picklesimer received a split sentence of ten years suspended to five years and five years probation. As a result, Picklesimer had five years and nine months left on his sentence which could have been used to successfully complete CSP. The nine months good time credit earned on his initial five years active sentence is effectively nullified pursuant to section 24-13-210(F) of the South Carolina Code.