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RENO v. KORAY

No. 94-790.

515 U.S. 50 (1995)

RENO, ATTORNEY GENERAL, et al. v. KORAY

United States Supreme Court.

Decided June 5, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miguel A. Estrada argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Solicitor General Days, Assistant Attorney General Harris, Deputy Solicitor General Dreeben, and Joseph Douglas Wilson.

Irwin Rochman argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.*

Rehnquist, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, and Breyer, JJ., joined. Ginsburg, J., filed a concurring opinion, p. 65. Stevens, J., filed a dissenting opinion, p. 66.

Chief Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court.

Title 18 U. S. C. § 3585(b) provides that a defendant generally must "be given credit toward the service of a term of imprisonment for any time he has spent in official detention prior to the date the sentence commences." Before the commencement of respondent's federal sentence, a Federal Magistrate Judge "released" him on bail pursuant to the Bail Reform Act of 1984 and ordered him confined to a community...

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