People v. Adams

¶1 A jury found respondent, Curtis Adams, guilty of assaulting a correctional officer. The presumptive sentencing range for that offense is two to six years, but because Adams committed the assault while serving a sentence for a prior felony conviction, the trial court imposed an aggravated sentence— twelve years in the Department of Corrections to be served consecutively to Adams’s remaining sentences.

¶2 .This case arises at the intersection of two sources of sentence enhancement, One requires an aggravated term-of-years range; the other requires consecutive sentencing. The court of appeals…