Opinion No. 12-80 (1980)

Dear Mr. Freemen:

This is in response to a request for an opinion by Mr. David Blackwell, Director of the Missouri Division of Corrections. Since he is a director within your Department we assumed his request was with your approval. His request reads as follows:

Under the Criminal code when multiple sentences are specified by the Court to run consecutive, shall they run consecutive as individual sentences or consecutive in the aggregate? To put it another way, shall two or three consecutive sentences be served as individual sentences for prison time and conditional release time or cumulative as…