Court Opinion

ID: 9463446
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:07:36.357915+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:38:07.417955
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CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge
(concurring in part, and dissenting, in part).
I agree that an indigent defendant is constitutionally entitled to receive credit against his sentence for that period of pretrial incarceration which resulted from his inability to post bond. But I also consider it both constitutional and desirable to rebuttably presume that such credit was given by the trial judge at the time of sentencing, and to impose upon petitioner the burden of proof to the contrary. See, Faye v. Gray, 541 F.2d 665, 669 (7th Cir. 1976; Campbell, dissenting).
In my view, the record in No. 76-1550 rebuts any such presumption, and accordingly I concur in the result reached by the majority with respect to that appeal. The record in No. 76-1582, on the other hand, does not reveal whether, in sentencing the petitioner, the trial court gave credit for time served in confinement prior to trial. Accordingly, I would presume that credit was given and would find that petitioner has not satisfied his burden of proof to the contrary — i.e. the burden to present evidence sufficient to rebut the presumption. I therefore respectfully dissent from the result reached by the majority in No. 76-1582.