This is not an exaggeration. This is a direct quote from a local news story about a really bad man who got caught doing really bad things. Someone, please, how we got from 360 to 25?!
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There are 2 types of sentences when it comes to people being convicted of multiple crimes – **consecutive** and **concurrent**.
Consecutive means that the individual will serve the sentence for each conviction one at a time.
Concurrent means the individual is receiving credit for multiple convictions at the same time.
Let’s say a guy is convicted of 3 separate charges, and the sentence is 15 years for the first charge, 10 years for the second, and 5 years for the third.
Imagine you get a countdown timer when you arrive in prison. Someone serving a **consecutive** sentence would begin with a timer that started at 15 years. Once it hit 0, he would get a new timer for 10 years. When that timer expires, he gets another timer for 5 years. When that expires, he has served a total of 30 years.
Someone serving a **concurrent** sentence would get 3 different timers upon arrival. One with 15 years, one with 10 years and one with 5 years and they would all begin their countdown at the same time. His total time served will be 15 years.
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