Consecutive Sentence Two or more sentences of jail time to be served one after another. For example, if a convicted felon was sentenced to two consecutive ten-year terms, the total sentence would be 20 years. Compare: concurrent sentence ...
Consecutive Sentences: Successive sentences, one beginning at the aspiration of another, imposed against a person convicted of two or more violations.
Counsel: Legal advice; a term used to refer to lawyers in a case.
Consecutive Sentence - prison terms for two or more offenses to be served one after the other. Example: Two 5-year sentences and one 3-year sentence, if served consecutively, result in a maximum of 13 years behind bars.
consecutive sentences - Successive sentences imposed against a person convicted or two or more crimes. One sentence begins at the expiration of another.
CONSECUTIVE SENTENCE - Upon conviction for multiple crimes, criminal sentences that must be served one after the other, rather than at the same time, are called "consecutive" sentences.
Consecutive Sentences: Successive sentences, one beginning at the expiration of another, imposed against a person convicted of two or more violations.
CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES: Criminal sentences that must be served one after the other rather than at the same time.
CONSERVATOR: Person appointed to manage the property and finances of another. Sometimes called a guardian.
consecutive sentences: Sentences that you serve one after the other. For example, if you have consecutive sentences of 10 years and 5 years, you must serve a total of 15 years. (Compare with concurrent sentences.) ...
CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES: Sentences imposed by the court, succeeding one another in regular order.
CONSERVATEE : An incapacitated person for whom the court has appointed a conservator to provide for his/her needs.
Consecutive Sentence - In cases where a criminal defendant is sentenced to separate terms of imprisonment for multiple offenses, a consecutive sentence is one that will be served after another sentence has expired.
"Consecutive sentences run separately and result in longer time in prison."
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A consecutive sentence is a sentence that runs separately from another sentence; i.e., either before or after the other sentence.
Consecutive Sentence Two or more terms of imprisonment served one after the other.
Magistrates' sentencing powers extend to shorter periods of custody (maximum of twelve months, or fifteen months for consecutive sentences)N.
or jail terms are served simultaneously, and the prisoner is entitled to discharge when the longest term specified expires (i.e., sentences of 1 to 15 years and 0 to 5 years means a maximum sentence of 15 years). Differs from a consecutive sentence, ...
Sentence - The punishment ordered by a court for a defendant convicted of a crime. (See concurrent and consecutive sentences.)
Sentence Report - (See Presentence Report.) ...
Concurrent Sentences: Sentences for more than one crime that are to be served at the same time, rather than one after the other. (See also cumulative or consecutive sentences.) ...
get into other trouble for the period he/she would have spent in jail or prison; "concurrent sentences," in which the prison time for more than one crime is served at the same time and only lasts as long as the longest term; "consecutive sentences, ...
 See also: Sentence, Concur, Law, Lawyer, Convict
  
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