304.3Sentencing Issues

Key Concepts

• Subject to statutory restrictions for certain types of offenses (such as DWI) and total sentence length, when a defendant is convicted of more than one offense at the same time, the court generally has three options for imposing the sentences:
• Consolidated – impose one sentence for all offenses, based on the most serious offense;
• Concurrent – impose a separate sentence for each offense, to be served simultaneously; or
• Consecutive – impose a separate sentence for each offense, and each sentence begins at the expiration of the preceding sentence.