Supreme Court allows reduction of sentence for attempted murder based on time spent in custody for unrelated theft.

The Supreme Court permitted the reduction of the defendant's sentence for attempted murder by accounting for time spent in custody for a separate, unrelated theft charge. Although the defendant was initially convicted of attempted murder after a gas detonator was found, he was later detained for suspected theft of similar devices before charges for that crime were dropped. The court ruled that this period of deprivation of liberty, occurring before the murder conviction, could legally be deducted from the final prison term.