Pennington v. State (Majority, with Concurring)
Annotate this CaseIn this case, one of three companion cases, Appellant appealed from sentencing orders entered after the original judgments of conviction, entered in 1978, were remanded in 2014 for resentencing. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that, contrary to Appellant’s arguments on appeal, the circuit court had the authority to order that the sentences in one of the cases run consecutively to the sentences in the other two cases. Specifically, the court held (1) the trial court was permitted in 1978 to run Appellant’s sentences consecutively; and (2) as it was permissible in 1978 to sentence Appellant to the term of years imposed on resentencing and to run the sentences as ordered, the trial court did not exceed its jurisdiction in imposing Appellant’s sentence.
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