U.S. v. Peterson, s. 72-2086
| Citation | 507 F.2d 1191,165 U.S.App.D.C. 368 |
| Decision Date | 02 December 1974 |
| Docket Number | 73-2088,73-2033,73-2091 and 73-2127,Nos. 72-2086,73-1522,s. 72-2086 |
| Parties | UNITED STATES of America v. William PETERSON, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America v. John F. POLLARD, Appellant (two cases). UNITED STATES of America v. Joseph L. KENNEDY, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America v. Joseph C. RUMBER, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America v. James R. JANOSKO, Appellant. |
| Court | United States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (District of Columbia) |
Mark Andrews,* Washington, D.C., for appellants. Sherman L. Cohn, Washington, D.C. (appointed by this Court), and June D. W. Kalijarvi were on the brief for appellants. Francis J. Murray, Jr.* entered an appearance for appellants.
Steven R. Schaars, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U.S. Atty., John A. Terry, Charles H. Roistacher and Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief for appellee.
*Entered an appearance as student counsel pursuant to Rule 20 of the General Rules of this Court.
Before ROBINSON, ROBB and WILKEY, Circuit Judges.
The question presented by these consolidated appeals is whether a defendant who is sentenced to imprisonment by the District Court is entitled to credit under 18 U.S.C. 3568 for the time spent on conditional release pending trial or appeal. We answer the question in the negative.
The statute, 18 U.S.C. 3568 provides:
The sentence of imprisonment of any person convicted of an offense shall commence to run from the date on which such person is received at the penitentiary, reformatory, or jail for service of such sentence. The Attorney General shall give any such person credit toward service of his sentence for any days spent in custody in connection with the offense or acts for which sentence was imposed.
The appellants contend that the periods during which they were on conditional release pending trial or appeal were 'days spent in custody' within the meaning of the statute. They argue that this conclusion follows because while on conditional release they were not completely at liberty. We think however that 'in custody', as used in the statute, means detention or imprisonment in a place of confinement and does not refer to the stipulations imposed when a defendant is at large on conditional release.
Prior to 1960, the first paragraph of 18 U.S.C. 3568 read:
The sentence of imprisonment of any person convicted of an offense in a court of the United States shall commence to run from the date on which such person is received at the penitentiay, reformatory, or jail for service of said sentence.
Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 838.
In 1960 this paragraph was amended to read:
The sentence of imprisonment of any person convicted of an offense in a court of the United States shall commence to run from the date on which such person is received at the penitentiary, reformatory, or jail for service of said sentence: Provided, That the Attorney General shall give any such person credit toward service of his sentence for any days spent in custody prior to the imposition of sentence by the sentencing court for want of bail set for the offense under which sentence was imposed where the statute requires the imposition of a minimum mandatory sentence.
Act of Sept. 2, 1960, Pub.L. No. 86-691, 1(a), 74 Stat. 738.
In 1966 the paragraph was again amended to its present form. Act of June 22, 1966, Pub.L. No. 89-465, 4, 80 Stat. 217.
It is apparent that as used in the 1960 statute the words 'in custody' referred to confinement 'for want of bail', not to the restrictions imposed when a defendant was released on bail. There is no evidence that Congress in amending this statute in 1966 intended to change its meaning to extend credit for time spent on bail. On the contrary, the Senate Report on the bill, explaining why the words 'for want of bail' were deleted from the 1960 statute, noted that
. . . persons charged with a nonbailable offense or not released for some reason other than lack of bail should also receive credit for such time against service of any sentence eventually imposed. Accordingly, S. 1357 guarantees credit for...
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