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”…
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