State v. Jones

FARMER, Judge.

In October 1991, defendant was before the court for sentencing on charges relating to worthless checks. One set of possible charges from the events that had led to her arrest was being held by the State in order to have the FBI do a handwriting analysis. But for the state’s unreadiness to proceed on them, the October 1991 sentencing would have included these charges; and the additional counts would have resulted in a contemporaneous sentence with the 5-year prison sentence she was given then.

Several months later, in May 1992 to be exact, the state proceeded on the additional…