Adams v. State

|,Appellant John Adams appeals from an order of the Pulaski County Circuit Court sentencing him to a total of nine years’ imprisonment in the Arkansas Department of Correction. He argues that the sentences imposed by the circuit court exceeded the maximum sentences that could be imposed and were therefore illegal. We disagree and affirm.

Adams entered guilty pleas to five separate felony offenses in August 2008. In those five cases, the Pulaski County Circuit Court sentenced him to concurrent sentences of twenty years’ imprisonment, with nine of those years suspended. In July 2010, Adams…