Consecutive sentences

Consecutive Sentences: Successive sentences, one beginning at the aspiration of another, imposed against a person convicted of two or more violations.
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consecutive sentences - Successive sentences imposed against a person convicted or two or more crimes. One sentence begins at the expiration of another.

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 sentences run separately and result in longer time in prison."
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Magistrates' sentencing powers extend to shorter periods of custody (maximum of twelve months, or fifteen months for consecutive sentences)N.

Consecutive sentences may only be imposed if there is specific statutory authority to do so. In some circumstances, consecutive sentences may be imposed within the judge's discretion (e.g.

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.) ...

period controlling, are concurrent sentences. Judges may sentence concurrently out of compassion, plea bargaining, or the fact that the several crimes are interrelated. When the sentences run one after the other, they are 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: Lawyer, Sentence, Consecutive sentence, Crime, Court