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Sentence Credit

By: Derek Hawkins//August 29, 2018//

Sentence Credit

By: Derek Hawkins//August 29, 2018//

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WI Court of Appeals – District I

Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Terry Terrell Anderson

Case No.: 2017AP2165-CR

Officials: DUGAN, J.

Focus: Sentence Credit

Terry Terrell Anderson pro se appeals postconviction orders entered in this action. After entering a guilty plea in this case, Anderson was convicted of misdemeanor battery and misdemeanor disorderly conduct, both as a habitual criminality repeater. At sentencing, the trial court granted Anderson accrued sentence credit, although the trial court was aware that Anderson faced revocation proceedings in a prior action, the 4230 action. The Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) subsequently informed the trial court that such credit was applied on April 4, 2017, to Anderson’s sentence in the 4230 action because his extended supervision was revoked and he was reconfined on the original sentence. As a result, the trial court entered an order amending the judgment of conviction to eliminate the sentence credit. Anderson then filed a motion for reconsideration in this action. The reconsideration court denied the motion.

On appeal, Anderson asserts that (1) he was entitled to the sentence credit, (2) he was not given dual sentence credit, (3) misapplication of the law deprived him of his sentence credit, and (4) the error was not harmless. We disagree and, therefore, affirm.

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Attorney Derek A. Hawkins is the managing partner at Hawkins Law Offices LLC, where he heads up the firm’s startup law practice. He specializes in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, private equity and venture capital funding and mergers & acquisitions. Check out the website at www.hawkins-lawoffices.com or contact them at 262-737-8825.

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