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SHELTON v. U.S.

No. 96-CF-1050.

721 A.2d 603 (1998)

Lee E. SHELTON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 24, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Riely, Washington, DC, appointed by the court, for appellant.

Adam L. Rosman, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Eric H. Holder, United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, John R. Fisher, Roy W. McLeese III and Colleen M. Kennedy, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before STEADMAN and RUIZ, Associate Judges, and RANKIN, Associate Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

In this appeal, we are asked to construe provisions of the Good Time Credits Act of 1986, specifically D.C.Code § 24-431(a), (c) (1996), and their interaction with the Sexual Psychopath Act ("SPA") enacted in 1948, D.C.Code §§ 22-3503 to -3511 (1996). The precise issue before us is whether a defendant may receive credit for time spent confined under the SPA at St. Elizabeths Hospital, where the trial court orders and the defendant...

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