Colorado statute
C.R.S. § 18-1.3-509 — Credit for time served on misdemeanor sentences.
Current through 2025 Regular Session
Part of Part 5: MISDEMEANOR AND PETTY OFFENSE SENTENCING, Colorado Revised Statutes.
Full text of C.R.S. § 18-1.3-509
Statutory text current through the 2025 Regular Session. This is an officially sanctioned publication using the official text of the Colorado Revised Statutes; it is not the official statutes of the State of Colorado.
A person who is confined for a misdemeanor offense prior to the imposition of a sentence for the misdemeanor offense shall be entitled to credit against the term of his or her sentence for the entire period of the confinement. At the time of sentencing, the court shall make a finding of the amount of presentence confinement to which the offender is entitled and shall include the finding in the mittimus. The period of confinement shall be deducted from the offender's sentence by the county jail.
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