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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Really the recommendation of the prosecution, what the state laws allow, and any precedence set forth by similar cases in the past. The last one probably being most important as you don’t want someone with similar sentencing to get an appeal and be released if they received 20 counts of 10 years ordered to serve consecutively and have already served 10 years and would be eligible for release of their sentence were changed to concurrent.
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