I just heard on the TV that someone got life in prison plus 47 years. I never understood this. Life in prison is life in prison so what does this mean when they get additional time on top of life in prison?
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One thing to note – the sentences are rarely consecutive, they’re normally concurrent. So if you’re sentenced to 20 years for one crime, 15 years for another, 45 years for a third, and 3 years for the last, you’re not going to serve 83 years, you’ll serve 45, all the sentences will be served at the same time.
Like people have pointed out, this allows accounting for things like convictions being overturned, or being pardoned for some (but not all) of the crimes, etc.
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