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Washington DOSA Revocation Requires Credit for Community Custody Time

Loaded on Feb. 4, 2015 by Mark Wilson published in Prison Legal News February, 2015, page 19
Filed under: Sentencing, Alternative Sentencing. Location: Washington.

Washington DOSA Revocation Requires Credit for Community Custody Time

by Mark Wilson

On November 26, 2013, the Washington State Court of Appeals held that when a “drug offender sentencing alternative” (DOSA) is revoked, the court must award credit for time the offender served in community custody.

In June 2012, Gabriel ...

 

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