noblepa wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2020 5:36 pm
jcolvin2 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:00 am
Gregg wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 2:28 am
So he turned five years into eleven and a half.
Someone please tell me this is consecutive.
Yep. You get consecutive sentencing when you fail to report and then bug out to Florida, armed to the teeth.
A concurrent sentence, for skipping out after sentencing, wouldn't be much of a deterrent, would it?
The only way it is a deterrent is if the act of running greatly increased the time served.
I think the bulk of the increased sentence is for Birk, after being convicted of a felony, being found with a small arsenal in his possession (and felons are not allowed to possess weapons), rather than just running away.
We had a client who failed to show for his sentencing hearing. When he was found almost a decade later on an Indian reservation, the court ended up tacking on a couple of years to his sentence.