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Dead Time

Dead Time can refer to:

  • Dead time, the time after each event during which the system is not able to record another event
  • Dead Time, a Doctor Who audio production based on the television series
  • Dead Time: Kala, 2007 Indonesian film
  • Dead Time, the pilot episode of an A&E television series named Paranormal State
  • Dead time (imprisonment), time spent institutionalized that does not count as credit toward the defendant's sentence.
  • Dead Time (Creaming jesus), an EP by the band Creaming Jesus
Dead time (imprisonment)

Dead time is time spent institutionalized that does not count as credit toward the defendant's sentence. An example would be time spent confined in a mental hospital while the defendant is being restored to competency to stand trial. Halfway house time pending sentencing can also sometimes be dead time.

In the U.S., federal law provides that a defendant shall 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 (1) as a result of the offense for which the sentence was imposed; or (2) as a result of any other charge for which the defendant was arrested after the commission of the offense for which the sentence was imposed; that has not been credited against another sentence.

Usage examples of "dead time".

During the brief dead time between the first and second cuts on the disc, we kissed.

Tradition demanded four days, to give the dead time to complete their journey into the oblivion of death.