Rule 23 order filed
October 28, 2004;
Motion to publish granted
November 16, 2004.

JUSTICE HOPKINS delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial, the defendant, Anthony DuPree, was convicted of burglary (720ILCS 5/19-1(a) (West 2002)) and theft under $300 (subsequent offense) (720 ILCS 5/16-1(a)(1)(A) (West 2002)). He was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for the burglary and5 years' imprisonment for the theft, with sentences to run concurrently. On appeal, thedefendant contends that (1) he was denied a fair trial because he was required to wear a stunbelt during the trial, (2) the circuit court erred in sentencing him to an extended term ofimprisonment for theft, and (3) he is entitled to additional credit against his sentences for timeserved in confinement prior to sentencing.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution (see People v. Cooper, 194 Ill.2d 419, 430-31, 743 N.E.2d 32, 40 (2000)), the evidence presented at the trial of thedefendant's guilt was overwhelming.

Testimony at the defendant's March 10 and 11, 2003, trial established that about 11:30a.m. on March 21, 2002, Kathleen Bailey sat with her employer in a Chevrolet Suburban in thehandicapped parking space near the front door of the Office Max store in Carbondale. Shenoticed a tall, "really skinny" black man standing by the doors of the Office Max. He wore nocoat, was shivering from the cold, and was "acting funny," prompting Bailey to continue towatch him carefully. The man, whom Bailey unequivocally identified at the trial as thedefendant, walked over to the Suburban and peered into the tinted windows of her vehicle. Bailey observed the defendant's face from a distance of about two feet. He was not wearingeyeglasses. The defendant walked behind the Suburban, continuing to peer into the car, andthen walked over to a vehicle that had pulled into the parking lot. The defendant opened thedoor of the car, put his head into the vehicle, pulled what appeared to be a black handbag fromthe car, and ran across the highway and then behind an area where some doctors' offices werelocated. A woman leapt from the vehicle into which the defendant had reached, and she beganto scream. When she was shown a photo lineup by the police, Bailey identified the defendantas the person she had seen at the crime scene. She was "98 percent certain" of the correctnessof her identification.

Joyce Farag pulled into the parking lot of the Office Max about 11:30 a.m. on March21, 2002, parked, and noticed a coatless, gloveless, "very tall, very thin man" standing near thebuilding. He was shivering in the cold wind. She was reaching to pick up her purse from thefront passenger's seat when the man, whom she identified at the trial as the defendant, openedthe passenger's door of her car. He leaned down into the car and asked her what time it was. His face was 18 inches to two feet from Farag's face. She looked very carefully at his facebecause she was unsure if she knew him. Farag told him that it was "11:30" and observed thathe wore a large, round-faced watch on his wrist that showed the proper time. The defendantclosed the door, walked a few steps from the car, returned, jerked the door open, and snatchedher purse, saying, "I'll take this." The defendant ran across the street in the direction of theVeach Oil station as Farag leapt from the car and yelled, "That man stole my purse!" She wentinto the Office Max and cried out that her purse had been stolen, and an employee called thepolice. When Farag looked at the photo lineup, she picked the defendant's photograph upwithout hesitation and kept it in front of her on the table as she viewed the other pictures "justto be sure." There was no doubt in her mind at the time of her trial testimony that the defendantwas the person who had taken her purse on March 21, 2002.

Lucinda Vinson, a Beck Bus Company driver, was en route to drop off some passengersabout 11:30 a.m. on March 21, 2002, when she passed near the doctors' office complex nearthe Office Max. She saw a man whom she later identified in court as the defendant run fromthe Office Max area, run across Walnut Street, and pass directly in front of her bus a very shortdistance from the vehicle. He was running awkwardly as he attempted to push what appearedto be a dark purse with a strap up under his shirt. Vinson looked back toward the Office Maxand saw a woman go "running and screaming into the Office Max." She dropped off herpassengers, returned the bus to base, and drove her personal vehicle back to the area of theOffice Max about 15 minutes after the incident. She saw the defendant, now carrying a jacketand wearing eyeglasses, on the street. Vinson turned her vehicle around in an attempt to seewhere the defendant was going, but by the time she did so, he was no longer on the street. Sheassumed that he had entered the apartment complex on Rendleman. Vinson went to the policestation and reported what she had seen earlier and upon her return to the area. When she wasshown a photo lineup, Vinson pointed to the defendant's photo and told the police that sherecognized the defendant as the person involved in the crime.

The defendant came to Stacey Clark's house between noon and 1 p.m. on March 21,2002. He telephoned his girlfriend and she came to pick him up. The defendant spoke to Clarkof the instant crime after that point in time and told Clark that Farag had lied when she said thather purse had been snatched from her presence. He asserted that after he had observed her gointo the Office Max without her purse, he went to her unlocked car, took the purse from thevehicle, and proceeded to Roderick Rowe's house. Once there, he entered the bathroom, tookmoney from the purse, and put the purse in the bathroom wastebasket. He did not want toretain the purse because the police were in the area. Rowe discovered the purse and made thedefendant take it out of his house to dispose of it. The defendant was angry with Rowe becausehe believed that Rowe had called the police and reported him. The defendant asked Clark totell the police that he was at Clark's house at the time of the crime. About a week after theincident, the police questioned Clark, who could not recall the date on which the defendantcame to his house. He later recalled that it was the date that Rachel Johnson had picked himup at Clark's house. Clark admitted that he was upset with the defendant because the defendanthad given the police Clark's name, rather than his own, when he was picked up on a trafficoffense in Saline County. Clark testified that the defendant sometimes, but not always, woreeyeglasses.

Carbondale police detective Aaron Baril responded on April 3, 2002, to an anonymoustelephone tip about the crime. He spoke with Roderick Rowe about the instant crime. He wentto Rowe's apartment at Lake Heights, about two blocks south of the Office Max. As a resultof his conversation, Detective Baril sought out the defendant. The defendant claimed not toknow Rowe and contended that he had been at work at the time of the crime. When thedefendant's contention proved false, the defendant then asserted that he had been at StaceyClark's house. Clark could not substantiate the defendant's assertion until about two weeksbefore the trial. At that time, Clark told Baril that the defendant had come to his house afterthe time of the crime and left within the hour with Johnson. When Detective Baril showedVinson a six-picture photo lineup, she was "80 percent sure" that the defendant's picturematched the person whom she had seen. Farag kept telling Baril that she was fearful ofidentifying the wrong person. She "actually took [the defendant's] picture" but was unable tochoose between the photo of the defendant and a photo of another man. Bailey identified thedefendant from the photo lineup as the person whom she saw at Office Max. She told Baril thatshe was "98 percent certain" of her identification at that time.

Rachel Johnson, who had a dating relationship with the defendant, was called to testifyon his behalf. She recalled that she had written a check to pay a traffic ticket for the defendant,that he had picked it up from her at 8 or 9 a.m. on March 21, 2002, and that she had picked himup at Stacey Clark's house about 2:30 p.m. that day. She had no idea what he was doing betweenthose hours. She asserted that at the time of the crime, the defendant had facial hair, verynoticeable tattoos, and prominent scars on his forehead and lip and that he always woreeyeglasses.

The defendant, having indicated in a pretrial motion that he would not testify on his ownbehalf, did not testify.

The jury returned guilty verdicts on both counts of the information on March 11, 2003,and the trial court ordered the preparation of a presentence investigation report.

The defendant asserted in his March 26, 2003, motion for a new trial that the court hadimproperly dismissed the only black juror during voir dire, despite his challenge to thedismissal, that the court had erroneously denied his motion in limine seeking to restricttestimony about what Roderick Rowe might have said, and that the evidence was insufficientto prove him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The motion for a new trial was heard on May1, 2003, prior to the sentencing hearing. At that time, as a basis for a new trial, defensecounsel asked the court to consider the fact that the defendant had been required to wear a stunbelt during the trial. She stated that she believed that the stun belt "prohibited him from feelingthat he was able to fully assist [her] in representing him at trial." She further stated, "Inaddition, he may or may not have decided on whether or not to take the stand based on the factthat he was wearing a stun belt." The prosecutor commented that this was new information andstated: "I wasn't even aware the defendant was wearing a stun belt. I don't know if any membersof the jury were aware the defendant was wearing a stun belt. I don't believe any impact on thejury could possibly be shown." The prosecutor related that defense counsel had told her priorto the trial that the defendant probably was not going to testify. The motion for a new trial wasdenied by the court, and the case proceeded to sentencing. The defendant was given theopportunity to address the court directly, but he made no allegation that his ability to conferwith counsel had been hampered by the stun belt or that his decision not to testify had been theproduct of wearing the device. The defendant was sentenced to serve 10 years' imprisonmentfor the burglary and 5 years' imprisonment for the theft, with the sentences to run concurrently. The court stated that the defendant was to be given credit "for all time served." The mittimus,which reflected the certification of the Jackson County sheriff, stated that he was to be givencredit against his sentences for 254 days served prior to sentencing. The defendant's May 21,2003, motion to reconsider sentences, which did not raise any issue relating to the amount ofthe credit against his sentences to which he was entitled, was denied, and the defendant filedthe instant appeal.

On appeal, the defendant contends that (1) he was denied a fair trial because he wasrequired to wear a stun belt during the trial, (2) the circuit court erred in sentencing him to anextended term of imprisonment for theft, and (3) he is entitled to additional credit against hissentences for time served in confinement prior to sentencing.

The defendant argues that he was denied a fair trial and denied his constitutional rightto due process because he was required to wear a stun belt during his jury trial and that the trialcourt should have conducted a hearing to determine whether it was necessary for him to do so.

The only indication in the trial record that the defendant was outfitted with a stun beltduring his trial is in the transcript of the hearing on his motion for a new trial. Defensecounsel told the court that she did not object to the stun belt during the trial because she wasunaware that there was some case law to the effect that the trial court was supposed to addressthe use of stun belts on a case-by-case basis. She told the court, "I believe that the necessityof wearing a stun belt prohibited [the defendant] from feeling that he was able to fully assistme in representing him at trial." Defense counsel did not tell the court when she became awarethat the defendant was wearing a stun belt. She failed to detail what led her to believe that thedefendant felt that he was not fully able to assist her or in what manner he might havecontributed to his defense had he "felt fully able" to do so. Defense counsel stated, "[Thedefendant] may or may not have decided on whether or not to take the stand based on the factthat he was wearing a stun belt." (Emphasis added.) She did not overtly state that he did, in fact,forego testifying on his own behalf because of the belt, and the pretrial motion indicating thathe would not testify is devoid of any allegation that his decision not to testify was promptedby the stun belt.

The prosecutor was totally unaware that the defendant was wearing a stun belt and didnot know if the jurors were cognizant of the alleged fact, but she believed that it was notpossible to show that the jury was impacted in any way by the stun belt. It is fair and logicalto assume from the prosecutor's statement that the stun belt was not visible to the onlookers.

Although the defendant had the freedom to address the court, he did so without assertingthat he had actually worn a stun belt during the trial, that he had been inhibited in his interactionwith counsel because of the belt, or that he had decided not to testify because he was wearingthe belt. The record substantiates that defense counsel filed a written motion prior to the trialin which she stated, "[T]he defendant has indicated to counsel that he will not testify in his jurytrial."

Although at the hearing on his posttrial motion the defendant orally raised the issue ofthe lack of a hearing on the use of the stun belt, he failed to make a contemporaneous objectionat the trial, thereby procedurally defaulting the issue on appeal. See People v. Crutchfield, No.5-03-0043, slip op. at 8 (October 19, 2004). He asserts that this court should consider theissue under the doctrine of plain error.

In People v. Evans, 209 Ill. 2d 194, 808 N.E.2d 939 (2004), the Illinois Supreme Courtobserved: "Courts of review may consider a waived error under the plain error doctrine in twocircumstances[:] where the evidence is closely balanced and where the error is of suchmagnitude that it denied the accused of a fair and impartial trial. [Citations.] The accused isdenied a fair and impartial trial where the prejudice reveals a total breakdown in the integrityof the judicial process." Evans, 209 Ill. 2d at 224, 808 N.E.2d at 956. The defendant assumesthe burden of demonstrating that he was prejudiced by an alleged error; a reversal on appeal isnot warranted unless the error is proven to have been prejudicial, and even the right to raiseconstitutional errors may be defaulted if the errors are insufficient to show that the defendantwas deprived of a fair trial. People v. Thurow, 203 Ill. 2d 352, 363-64, 786 N.E.2d 1019,1025-26 (2003); Crutchfield, slip op. at 9. Given the quality and quantity of the evidenceagainst him, it is not surprising that the defendant fails to argue that the evidence was closelybalanced.

The defendant does contend, however, that his trial was rendered fundamentally unfairby the fact that he was required to wear a stun belt without the court having first determinedthat it was necessary for him to do so. He cites People v. Martinez, 347 Ill. App. 3d 1001,808 N.E.2d 1089 (2004), in support of his position. In Martinez, the defendant objected tothe stun belt prior to the trial, and the trial court failed to analyze the factors that should beused to determine the necessity for extraordinary restraints at the trial prior to simplydeferring to the sheriff's judgment and trying the defendant while he was wearing a stun belt. The reviewing court found that the trial court's failure to consider on the record the criteria forrestraining defendants after the defendant objected to the use of the stun belt constituted a dueprocess violation that deprived him of a fair trial. Martinez, 347 Ill. App. 3d at 1004, 808N.E.2d at 1092.

The use of obvious restraints and other indica of incarceration at the trial does have thepotential to prejudice a jury. We noted in Crutchfield that we agreed with Martinez that it isa due process violation if the trial court fails to conduct a hearing on the necessity for thedevice once the defendant has objected to the use of a stun belt. Crutchfield, slip op. at 9. This position is in alignment with the United States Supreme Court's position on the indiciaof incarceration at a trial:

"[A]lthough the State cannot, consistently with the Fourteenth Amendment,compel an accused to stand trial before a jury while dressed in identifiable prisonclothes, the failure to make an objection to the court as to being tried in such clothes,for whatever reason, is sufficient to negate the presence of compulsion necessary toestablish a constitutional violation." (Emphasis added.) Estelle v. Williams, 425 U.S.501, 512-13, 48 L. Ed. 2d 126, 135, 96 S. Ct. 1691, 1697 (1976).

Here, unlike Martinez, there was no contemporaneous objection to the requirement that thedefendant wear a stun belt during the trial. We note that the defendant's decision not to takethe witness stand was made prior to the trial and was included in a motion in limine. There wasno indication in the record that his decision not to testify was prompted by the fact that hewould wear a stun belt during the trial. The defendant was present when his counsel speculatedthat his decision to forego testifying was possibly attributable to the stun belt and that the beltmight have caused him to not feel "fully able" to assist in his own defense. When he addressedthe court, he did not even mention the belt, much less assert that it had hampered him inassisting counsel or that he had chosen not to testify because he was wearing the device.

There is not a scintilla of evidence that the jury could have been aware of the stun belt. It came as a surprise to the State that the defendant had been wearing a stun belt, and defensecounsel herself may arguably have been unaware of the stun belt until she received a memofrom the Office of the State Appellate Defender in which the Martinez case was discussed andshe queried the defendant. The trial court's failure to conduct a hearing on the necessity of thestun belt as a restraint for the defendant did not contribute to his conviction, and thus the plainerror doctrine is inapplicable and the error has been procedurally defaulted.

We do, however, note that the use of stun belts on the order of the sheriff, without anyvetting of the procedure by the court, should not be standard operating procedure. Ourdecision might have differed had the evidence against the defendant not been so overwhelming. See Crutchfield, slip op. at 10.

The defendant also asserts in the alternative that his counsel provided inadequateassistance because she failed to object to the use of the stun belt prior to or at the trial. Claimsof ineffective assistance of counsel are reviewed under the two-prong test set forth inStrickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 80 L. Ed. 2d 674, 104 S. Ct. 2052 (1984). UnderStrickland, a defendant must prove both that (1) counsel's performance was deficient in thatit fell below an objective standard of reasonableness and (2) the deficient performanceprejudiced the defense in that, absent counsel's deficient performance, there is a reasonableprobability that the result of the proceeding would have been different. Strickland, 466 U.S.at 687, 694, 80 L. Ed. 2d at 693, 698, 104 S. Ct. at 2064, 2068. The failure to prove bothprongs of the test will result in a finding that counsel provided adequate assistance. Evans,209 Ill. 2d at 220, 808 N.E.2d at 954.

The overwhelming evidence against the defendant caused this court to find that he wasnot prejudiced by being required to wear a stun belt, precluding us from finding that thedefendant established the prejudice prong of the Strickland two-prong test. His claim ofineffective assistance of counsel must therefore fail.

The State concedes, and this court agrees, that the defendant could receive an extendedterm in prison only "for the class of the most serious offense of which the offender wasconvicted." 730 ILCS 5/5-8-2(a) (West 2002); People v. Pinkonsly, 207 Ill. 2d 555, 568, 802N.E.2d 236, 245 (2003). The imposition of an extended term of imprisonment on both of thedefendant's convictions was impermissible. His sentence for theft is therefore reduced to themaximum statutory period of three years' imprisonment for a Class 4 felony. See 730 ILCS5/5-8-1(a)(7) (West 2002).

Initially, we note that sentencing credit for time served is a right afforded by statute andthat, thus, a defendant's failure to present the issue to a trial court, either by contemporaneousobjection or by postsentencing motion, does not result in the procedural default of this issue. People v. Bailey, 235 Ill. App. 3d 1, 5, 600 N.E.2d 1267, 1269 (1992).

The defendant's opening brief contends that he is entitled to 371 days' credit against hissentences for burglary and theft for time spent in custody from April 26, 2002, until May 1,2003, the date on which he was sentenced, as opposed to the 254 days listed in the mittimus. The State argues that the defendant is entitled to credit only for the time spent in custodybetween his April 26, 2002, arrest and the date on which he posted bond, July 18, 2002, andthe time spent in the Jackson County jail between November 14, 2002, when he was servedwith the August 12, 2002, arrest warrant, and May 1, 2003, when he was sentenced. Itcalculates the number of days' credit to which he is entitled as 253, one less than the mittimusstated.

In his reply brief, the defendant concedes that he posted bond in the instant case on July18, 2002, and that he is not entitled to credit against his sentences for the days between thatdate and August 12, 2002, when the trial court increased the amount of his bond and issued awarrant for his arrest. He asserts, however, that he is still entitled to more days of creditagainst his sentences than he was given, a total of 347 days. The defendant argues that underPeople v. Robinson, 172 Ill. 2d 452, 667 N.E.2d 1305 (1996), he is entitled to credit againsthis sentences in the instant case for time spent in custody between August 12, 2002, when hewas in the Saline County jail, and November 14, 2002, when he was returned to the JacksonCounty jail from Big Muddy River Correctional Center (Big Muddy). He contends that hisbond was "effectively revoked" and that he was "effectively placed back in custody in this caseby the trial court increasing his bond on August 12, 2002," notwithstanding the fact that thetrial court never revoked his bond and the defendant never formally moved to withdraw hisbond or surrendered the bond money that he had posted on July 18, 2002. The defendantasserts that it was not his responsibility to arrange to have the warrant for the failure to appearserved, that the prosecutor was aware on the date that the warrant was issued that he was incustody in Saline County, and that under section 107-9(f) of the Code of Criminal Procedureof 1963 (725 ILCS 5/107-9(f) (West 2002)), the warrant could have been faxed to thatcounty's jail on the day that it was issued, in conformance with section 107-16 of the Code ofCriminal Procedure of 1963 (725 ILCS 5/107-16 (West 2002)), which imposes a duty on lawenforcement officers to serve warrants "without delay."

The record on appeal substantiates that the defendant was on mandatory supervisedrelease from the Department of Corrections on "home monitoring" when he was served witha summons on April 25, 2002, and docket sheet notes indicate that he appeared in court "fromjail" on the burglary and theft charges in the instant case on April 26, 2002. He wasindisputably in custody on the charges as of April 26, 2002. On May 16, 2002, he was returnedto Menard Correctional Center (Menard) for violating the terms of his mandatory supervisedrelease in Jackson County case No. 99-CF-467. On June 12, 2002, he was transferred fromMenard to Big Muddy. The defendant appeared in Jackson County court on June 27, 2002, andthe judge set the instant case for an August 12, 2002, trial. The defendant posted 10% bondon the $5,000 bond on July 18, 2002, while he was in custody at Big Muddy. He was alsogiven notice of his August 12, 2002, court date at that time. The next day, July 19, 2002, thedefendant was released from Big Muddy.

When the defendant failed to appear for the trial on Monday, August 12, 2002, defensecounsel informed the court that a friend of the defendant had called her office that morning andhad told her that the defendant was being held under the name of Stacey Clark in the SalineCounty jail on charges of obstruction of justice and driving with a suspended license thatstemmed from an August 7, 2002, incident. Counsel stated that "all this came about on Friday,"which would have been August 9, 2002. She sought a stay of warrant or a continuance of thetrial. The State announced ready for trial and objected to the continuance. It asked for awarrant to issue with a "substantial bond" for the defendant for his failure to be present in court,in order to have a detainer on the defendant to bring him to Jackson County when he wasreleased, if in fact he was being held in custody somewhere. The trial court stated that awarrant would issue for the defendant for his failure to appear, and it set bond at $10,000. Awritten warrant issued for the defendant on August 12, 2002, "to answer a charge made against[him] for the offense of THEFT CON INTENT $300 PRIOR [sic]" and to "hold [him] for bail." There is no support in the record for the conclusion that the Saline County authorities had anyknowledge that a warrant had issued for the defendant or that his bond had been increased.

Department of Corrections (Department) records, of which we may take judicial notice(see People v. Williams, 328 Ill. App. 3d 879, 887, 767 N.E.2d 511, 519 (2002)), show thatAugust 7, 2002, is the defendant's custody date for the Saline County obstruction-of-justicecharge, to which he pleaded guilty on September 5, 2002. The presentence investigation reportsubstantiates that he committed the crime on August 7, 2002, and that on September 5, 2002,he pleaded guilty to the Saline County charge. The Saline County court issued the judgmentand sentence order on September 9, 2002. Department records also show that he returned tothe actual custody of the Department at Menard on September 13, 2002, following hisconviction in Saline County. He was transferred to Big Muddy on October 16, 2002. Therecords show that on November 14, 2002, he was "paroled out" of Big Muddy. Departmentrecords give August 17, 2002, as the custody date for his convictions in the instant case.

On November 14, 2002, the defendant was transported by the Jackson County sheriff'sdepartment from Big Muddy to the Jackson County jail on a "prison extradition." He wasserved with the outstanding warrant when he arrived at the Jackson County jail on that date. OnDecember 2, 2002, defense counsel moved to reduce his bond, which the motion claimed was"excessive in light of his inability to attend his court date." The motion described the defendantas having "been in custody since his arrest on November 14, 2002." On January 16, 2003,counsel moved to have the motion docketed for a hearing. The record does not reflect that thedefendant's motion to reduce his bond was ever heard prior to the commencement of the trialon March 10, 2003. He remained in custody in the Jackson County jail until his May 1, 2003,sentencing hearing.

In People v. Arnhold, 115 Ill. 2d 379, 504 N.E.2d 100 (1987), the Illinois SupremeCourt stated: "[A] defendant who is out on bond on one charge, and who is subsequentlyrearrested and returned to custody on another charge, is not returned to custody on the firstcharge until his bond is withdrawn or revoked." Arnhold, 115 Ill. 2d at 383, 504 N.E.2d at 101. This court held in People v. Hatchett, 203 Ill. App. 3d 989, 560 N.E.2d 1347 (1990), that itwas improper for the trial court to refuse to grant a defendant's pro se "Motion to RecoverBond Money," which it interpreted as a motion to withdraw his bond, filed after the defendanthad been arrested on unrelated charges. The defendant in the instant case never filed a motionto withdraw or exonerate the bond that he had posted on July 18, 2002, nor did the trial courtexpressly revoke his bond when he failed to appear on August 12, 2002, for trial on the instantcharges. His motion for the reduction of bond asserted that he had "been in custody since hisarrest on November 14, 2002."

The defendant considered himself to again be "in custody" on the instant charges as ofhis November 14, 2002, arrest on the August 12, 2002, warrant. So does this court. There isno dispute between the parties over giving the defendant credit against his sentences for thedays he spent in custody on the instant charges between his arrest on April 26, 2002, and July18, 2002, when he posted bond, a period of 84 days. There is also no dispute between theparties that he is entitled to credit against his sentences in the instant case for time spent incustody between November 14, 2002, when he was served with the warrant issued on August12, 2002, and his May 1, 2003, sentencing date, a total of 169 days. Between the two periodsof incarceration, the defendant was undeniably entitled to a credit of 253 days.

The question is, then, whether the trial court's grant of the State's motion to increasehis bond on the burglary and theft charges was tantamount to a revocation of his bond. We cannot find that to be the case. However, the unique facts of the instant casemilitate in favor of finding that the defendant is entitled to credit for his incarceration betweenAugust 12, 2002, and November 14, 2002. Defense counsel was aware that the defendant wasin custody in Saline County on the date that the court increased his bond and that the warrantissued for his arrest for the underlying theft charge, not for a failure to appear. We assume thatdefense counsel was cognizant of the supreme court's holding in Arnhold. It behooved defensecounsel to move to withdraw the bond posted in the instant case in order to allow the defendantto earn credit against his eventual sentences in the instant case at the same time that he earnedcredit against his sentence in the Saline County case. Counsel's failure to do so prompts thiscourt to remand the case to the circuit court of Jackson County to amend the mittimus toreflect a credit against the defendant's sentences for a total of 347 days' presentenceincarceration.

For the foregoing reasons, the defendant's conviction is affirmed, his sentence for theftis modified to the maximum statutory period of three years' imprisonment for a Class 4 felony,and the cause is remanded to the circuit court to amend the mittimus to reflect that thedefendant is entitled to 347 days' sentencing credit for presentence incarceration.

Affirmed as modified; cause remanded with directions.

CHAPMAN, P.J., and WELCH, J., concur.