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WILLIAM E. ROBERTS, JR., Defendant-Appellant." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE CRAVEN\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nDefendant William E. Roberts, after entering guilty pleas to two charges of burglary, was sentenced to two concurrent 30-month periods of probation with the condition that he serve 185 days of periodic imprisonment. On October 21, 1974, a petition was filed to revoke defendant\u2019s probation in both cases; and, subsequently, the Illinois authorities learned that on December 30, 1974, defendant had been convicted and sentenced on a separate charge in the State of Washington. Then on February 4, 1976, defendant was advised that the Washington authorities had received an Illinois detainer warrant and a demand for custody in order to conduct a probation revocation hearing.\nOn March 15, 1976, defendant filed a motion to dismiss the petition to revoke his probation. It alleged that defendant had been prejudiced by the State\u2019s failure to return him from incarceration in Washington for a prompt hearing on the petition to revoke his probation. The motion alleged that:\n\u201cA detainer has been placed against me at the Washington State Reformatory, where I am now confined, on the basis of the above charges. A detainer makes parole planning virtually impossible, and prohibits me from any participation in the furlough program here in Washington.\u201d\nOn March 31, 1976, a hearing was held on defendant\u2019s motion at which the State outlined the good faith efforts it had made to expedite the hearing on the petition to revoke defendant\u2019s probation. Defendant\u2019s motion to dismiss was denied and that ruling is not an issue in this appeal.\nOn June 16, 1976, the hearing was held on the petition to revoke defendant\u2019s probation. It was shown that as a condition of probation defendant was to have served periodic imprisonment consisting of all weekends between August 19, 1974, and December 22, 1974. Defendant\u2019s probation officer testified that this condition had not been excused and testimony of the sheriff established that defendant had only served two weekends in jail during the above period. The trial court found defendant in violation of the terms of his probation\u2014revoked it\u2014and, after a sentencing hearing, sentenced defendant to concurrent terms of 1 to 3 years and 1\u00bd to 6 years\u2019 imprisonment.\nDefendant\u2019s sole contention on appeal is that he was \u201cin custody\u201d for purposes of section 5\u20148\u20147(b) of the Unified Code of Corrections (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 38, par. 1005\u20148\u20147(b)) during the period that a detainer was lodged against him while he was incarcerated in the Washington State penitentiary system. Section 5\u20148\u20147(b) provides:\n\u201cThe offender shall be given credit on the maximum term and the minimum period of imprisonment for time spent in custody as a result of the offense for which the sentence was imposed.\u201d\nDefendant maintains that he was entitled to sentence credit for the period between February 4, 1976, when a detainer was lodged, and June 7, 1976, the day he was returned to Illinois for the hearing on the petition to revoke his probation. While defendant admits that his incarceration in Washington was due to his conviction in that State, he argues that \u201ccustody\u201d in section 5\u20148\u20147(b) contemplates lesser restraints than confinement. Defendant cites three reasons in support of this argument: A detainer (1) makes programming decisions difficult; (2) makes parole planning virtually impossible; and (3) prohibits his participation in the Washington furlough program.\nHowever, defendant\u2019s own affidavit indicates that he was in segregation since February 13,1975, and scheduled for parole on June 1,1976. These admissions tend to show that the detainer had no effect on the programming or parole decisions made in his behalf. Whether the detainer could have or did prejudice defendant\u2019s chances with respect to the Washington furlough program is a question we have no basis for deciding, yet defendant\u2019s affidavit does not allege that he was otherwise eligible for that program.\nIn People ex rel. Morrison v. Sielaff (1974), 58 Ill. 2d 91, 316 N.E.2d 769, the Illinois Supreme Court interpreted the term \u201cin custody\u201d as used in section 5\u20148\u20147(b) and held that time spent on bail did not constitute time spent \u201cin custody\u201d under that section. In Sielaff, the court distinguished Hensley v. Municipal Court (1973), 411 U.S. 345, 36 L. Ed. 2d 294, 93 S. Ct. 1571, a case which defendant relies on here, by saying that Hensley broadly construed \u201ccustody\u201d for purposes of the Federal habeas corpus law. They expressly held that Hensley was not controlling authority in the construction of the statutory provision at issue in Sielaff. We feel that such reasoning would apply as well to distinguish Jones v. Johnston (D. C. Cir. 1976), 534 F.2d 353, the case defendant principally relies on in this appeal.\nIn Jones, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals held that a parole violator warrant lodged as a detainer represents sufficient \u201ccustody\u201d of a parolee-prisoner to support habeas corpus jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 2241. (534 F.2d 353, 357.) However, like the court in Sielaff, we feel that here, faced with interpretation of an Illinois statute, a Federal court\u2019s construction of the term \u201cin custody\u201d for purposes of habeas jurisdiction is not controlling. Analysis of the Jones case discloses several reasons why the District of Columbia Court of Appeals interpreted \u201cin custody\u201d broadly. First, without a finding that the habeas petitioner was \u201cin custody\u201d under 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 2241, the Federal court would be without jurisdiction to reach the merits of the case. Moreover, the court\u2019s main concern in Jones was seeing that the prisoners got a prompt hearing on the petitions to revoke their parole. The prisoners there had sought prompt hearings, yet the government argued that, though a hearing and final determination were required, it could be postponed until the intervening incarceration terminated. For prisoners in Jones, this could mean having a pending detainer warrant against them for years while serving their intervening sentences. This practice prejudiced defendants already in prison since it prevented the possibility that defendants\u2019 sentences resulting from parole revocation would be allowed to run at least partially concurrent with the sentence for intervening offense. Second, the court stressed that delaying the hearing might impair the accused\u2019s ability to present a defense. Third, should a defendant be taken into custody once his intervening sentence had expired pending the parole board\u2019s determination, in the event their decision was not to revoke probation, defendant would have been incarcerated for a period of time without any justification. The concern for defendants\u2019 access to privileges and rehabilitative programs during the intervening sentence was only one of the court\u2019s several concerns in Jones.\nIn any event, there is considerable disagreement even among Federal circuit courts concerning the interpretation of the term \u201cin custody\u201d for purposes of 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 4207. Both the Fifth and Tenth Circuits have held that a Federal parolee is not taken into custody until after the parole revocation warrant has been executed. (Small v. Britton (10th Cir. 1974), 500 F.2d 299; Cook v. United States Attorney General (5th Cir. 1974), 488 F.2d 667, cert. denied, 419 U.S. 846, 42 L. Ed. 2d 75, 95 S. Ct. 81.) These cases construe \u201cin custody\u201d not to mean the mere issuance of a detainer warrant but rather the situation where defendant is actually retaken upon the warrant.\nIn this same vein, this court has held that under section 5\u20148\u20144 of the Unified Code of Corrections (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 38, par. 1005\u20148\u20144(f)), which requires consecutive sentencing for offenses committed while the offender was \u201ccommitted\u201d to the Department of Corrections, the term \u201ccommitted\u201d means offenses which take place while the offender is in custody, confined, or held by the Department. It does not contemplate the situation where defendant is on parole at the time he commits the crime. (People v. Griffith (1975), 26 Ill. App. 3d 405, 325 N.E.2d 392.) Griffith is analogous to the present case in that there the court interpreted the term \u201ccommitted\u201d to mean confinement and not the lesser restrain of parole.\nAs Sielaff points out, the Unified Code of Corrections does not specifically define the meaning of \u201cin custody.\u201d Yet, as the case notes, custody when construed as it is used in other sections of the Code, relates to confinement. (58 Ill. 2d 91, 93-94, 316 N.E.2d 769, 770-71.) Also, commentary to section 5\u20148\u20147 supports the view that custody means no less than confinement.\n\u201cThis section * * * gives full credit for time served in custody as a result of the offense for which the sentence was imposed. This would apply irrespective of where the offender was confined and would apply to custody outside of the State.\u201d Ill. Ann. Stat., ch. 38, par. 1005\u20148\u20147, Council Commentary, at 514 (Smith-Hurd 1973).\nAs we read this commentary and the statute itself, it contemplates credit given for time served in custody, whether in Illinois or in other States, as a result of the offense for which the sentence is imposed. We believe it would thwart the plain meaning of section 5\u20148\u20147(b) to give a defendant credit for being \u201cin custody\u201d for his confinement on the Washington charge since such was not \u201cc result of the offense for which the sentence was imposed.\u201d (Emphasis added.) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 38, par. 1005\u20148\u20147(b).) We believe that since defendant\u2019s confinement in Washington was on a wholly unrelated charge, to give him credit for time served there while the Illinois detainer was pending would be giving him a windfall not intended by the statute.\nFor the foregoing reasons, we held that for purposes of section 5 \u2014 8\u2014 7(b) a person is not \u201cin custody\u201d during the period a detainer was lodged against him while incarcerated in another State\u2019s prison as a result of a crime committed there.\nAffirmed.\nMILLS and REARDON, JJ., concur.", "type": "majority", "author": "Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE CRAVEN" } ], "attorneys": [ "Richard J. Wilson, of State Appellate Defender\u2019s Office, of Springfield, for appellant.", "William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield (James B. Zagel, Jayne A. Carr, and Bruce D. Locher, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel), for the People." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WILLIAM E. ROBERTS, JR., Defendant-Appellant.\nFourth District\nNos. 13921, 13922 cons.\nOpinion filed April 14, 1977.\nRichard J. Wilson, of State Appellate Defender\u2019s Office, of Springfield, for appellant.\nWilliam J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield (James B. Zagel, Jayne A. Carr, and Bruce D. Locher, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel), for the People." }, "file_name": "0524-01", "first_page_order": 562, "last_page_order": 566 }