Commonwealth v. Bruzzese

These cases raise issues of the sentencing options available to judges after a defendant’s probation has been revoked on multiple charges, and specifically, how a concurrent sentencing scheme affects those options. We granted the Com*608monwealth’s application for further appellate review in Commonwealth v. Bruzzese, 53 Mass. App. Ct. 152 (2001), where the Appeals Court concluded that a judge “impermissibly altered the concurrent sentencing scheme [on four complaints] by extending the probation on one complaint while simultaneously revoking the probation and imposing the suspended sentence of one…