Court Opinion

ID: 9463061
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:57:20.422887+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:55.163505
License: Public Domain

WILLIAM J. CAMPBELL
(dissenting in part).
I would reach the question of whether it is constitutionally permissible to presume that the sentencing judge credited pre-sentence confinement served as a result of a defendant’s inability to post bond, and would hold that, as long as such a presumption is rebuttable, it constitutionally may be invoked. I would further conclude that this rebuttable presumption is, in fact, rebutted only where the record clearly shows that the trial judge did not credit such pre-trial confinement at the time of sentencing. Finally, in the instant case, I would conclude, for the reasons stated by Judge GORDON below, that the presumption has not been rebutted, and accordingly would affirm the decision of the district court.