Walden v. State (Majority)
Annotate this CaseIn 2013, the State filed a petition to revoke Appellant’s suspended sentences from three previous convictions, a felony hot-check conviction, a second-degree forgery conviction, and a possession of drug paraphernalia conviction. The circuit court revoked Appellant’s suspended sentences on each charge and imposed a sentence of fourteen years’ imprisonment with an additional eight years’ suspended imposition of sentence, to run consecutively. Appellant appealed, contending that the fourteen-year sentence imposed upon his revocation was illegal. The Supreme Court affirmed the fourteen-year term of imprisonment and modified the two suspended sentences to run concurrently with each other and with the term of imprisonment, holding (1) Appellant’s sentences for second-degree forgery and possession of drug paraphernalia were illegal to the extent the circuit court ordered multiple periods of suspension to run consecutively rather than concurrently; and (2) Appellant’s suspended sentences on those same two charges were illegal to the extent that they ran consecutively to the imprisonment imposed for Appellant’s felony hot-check conviction.
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