State v. Jones
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The Supreme Court held that if an offender who is on community control is convicted and imprisoned for a new offense, the revocation proceeding in the original case may not result in a prison sentence that runs consecutively to the new prison sentence if no mention was made of consecutive sentences as part of the original sentence for community control.
Defendant pled guilty in Harrison County to endangering children. The trial court sentenced her to five years of community control with a two-year prison sentence reserved. Later, the trial court revoked Defendant's community control based on Defendant's conviction for robbery in a Jefferson County case, for which she had received a term of three years' imprisonment. The trial court ordered Defendant to serve the reserved two-year sentence consecutively to the three-year sentence imposed in the Jefferson County case. The court of appeals vacated the sentence. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the trial court was not authorized to impose a consecutive prison term on Defendant because she was not advised that if she violated the terms of her community control, she might be ordered to serve the two-year reserved prison term consecutively to any other sentences.
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