“The judge sentenced him to 360 years, but he will serve 25.” (USA)

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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 a lot of rules around how sentencing works.

The most likely case is that the judge sentenced him to a whole bunch of jail sentences (for each crime) served “*consecutively*” – that is to say, one after the other – but the law actually specifies that in this specific case they are *supposed* to be served “concurrently” – that is to say, he’s in prison for all of them at the same time, so only the longest time matters – and the longest of the individual sentences is 25 years.

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