Second question: I take it to me that White gave her credit for the six months when she served earlier this year for possessing methamphetamine.

I really don’t know why one crime should be played against the other like that though.

Although, as someone else pointed out, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense why the judge would do this. These two crimes seem unrelated, so I’m not sure why the judge would be lenient on this sentence based on previous time served for an unrelated (drug possession) offense.

However, that’s way it reads to me.

I would take it to mean that the judge would have given Goodenow a seven month jail sentence for the lottery fraud alone, but because of time served earlier in the year, she was only required to serve one additional month in prison.

earlier this year she served six months for possessing meth.