California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Rudd, F068434 (Cal. App. 2015):
Defendant also complains about the court's calculation of custody credits, and contends he should receive more credits because he has continuously been in custody since 1989. "[S]ection 2900.5 provides that a convicted person shall receive credit against his sentence for all days spent in custody, including presentence custody [citation], but 'only where the custody to be credited is attributable to proceedings related to the same conduct for which the defendant has been convicted' [citation]. The statute's application is clear when the conduct that led to the conviction and sentence was the sole cause of the custody to be credited." (People v. Bruner (1995) 9 Cal.4th 1178, 1180,
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