Watching a trial where the defendant is accused of causing 6 deaths and about 70 serious injuries [in one act]. What determines whether the judge will sentence him to consecutive or concurrent terms in prison?
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In the US, it depends on several things.
For one, if the two crimes were done in the same criminal incident.
Meaning if you kidnapped somebody then beat the crap out of them, then the kidnapping would run concurrent with the assault. But if you beat the crap out of a person then two days later kidnapped them, then the sentences will run stacked or consecutive. This is because it was two criminal incidents instead of one.
Sex crimes (in Texas) are the only crimes that can be made to run consecutive by the judge even if it was the same criminal incident or act.
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