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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The way it was explained to me is that you’re given a sentence for each crime you commit. The reason they assign a sentencing for each crime is so that if you’re exonerated of one later on, you’re not just released — you’re still on the hook for the others.
Suppose you you’re sentenced with breaking into someone’s house, stealing their valuables, killing the husband, and raping the wife. You get 25 years for each. Then it comes out that the wife had her lover over, who killed the husband, then the wife threw her lover under the bus and claimed rape. You just happened to be the poor bastard who broke into the house and got blamed for everything. A poor example but weird shit happens and it can be difficult to reconstruct what happened.
Those other charges get dropped, but you’re still guilty of theft and breaking and entering and still have to serve your time, even though your “total” time went from 100 years to 50.
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