Court Opinion

ID: 9605761
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 02:41:28.493344+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:20:51.071120
License: Public Domain

Gunderson, J.,
concurring and dissenting:
I agree that if an indigent is incarcerated because he cannot post bail, in circumstances where an affluent person could have purchased pretrial freedom, our Constitution often requires that jail-time be credited against his sentence. Cf. Tate v. Short, 401 U.S. 395 (1971), and Williams v. Illinois, 399 U.S. 235 (1970). However, I do not agree that the majority opinion adequately resolves the permutations of the problem, either in the abstract or as they appear in the cases before us.