Legal Question in Criminal Law in Texas

What does it mean by serving 2 sentences concurrently?


Asked on 8/24/09, 5:27 pm

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Robert Tuthill Law Office of Robert H. Tuthill

this basically means the sentences are to be served at the same time. so if someone gets a 4 year sentence in prison and a 7 year sentence in prison, and the judge order them to run concurrently, that means the person would basically be facing a 7 year sentence (since they are serving both sentences at the same time) rather than 11 years (serving one sentence of 7 years and then another sentence of 4 years running consecutively to one another.

I hope I explained this without confusion....

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Answered on 8/24/09, 11:21 pm


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