Split sentence????

[Nevilledog]

I've never seen a sentence like the one Jackson just imposed on Manafort. How can you order a person to serve a sentence that is both concurrent and consecutive for one offense??? What am I missing?

[PTWB]

1. Some of the months are concurrent, some are not.

[Nevilledog]

2. That's not the point I'm trying to make.

A judge makes a judgement of sentence for each crime (1 count). Here the judge imposed 60 months, 30 concurrent, 30 consecutive. That means there are an additional 17 months of EDVA sentence to be served BEFORE the consecutive 30. Sentences are normally run in a calendar fashion...... the 60 day for day. Not 30, 17 for a separate conviction, back to the remaining 30. In effect that is making the 60 month sentence into a 77 month sentence.

[unblock]

3. it is odd. manafort got 30 months for failure to report foreign income

concurrent with tax fraud, 24 months on 5 counts and 47 months for bank fraud, all concurrent.

not sure how jackson says the new sentence is concurrent with the portion of the 47 months that's concurrent with everything else but consecutive to the extra 17 months.

i guess he serves 30 months concurrent, then 17 months serving *only* the rest of the bank fraud sentence, then goes back to serving the rest of jackson's sentence.

[Nevilledog]

4. Don't understand how that's possible.

Although my 27 years experience practicing criminal law was in state court, I've never seen a sentence bifurcated like that. Must be something uniquely Federal.

[Nevilledog]

5. Kicking because I know someone here knows the answer.