State v. Tidwell

Leben, J.:

Roy Tidwell appeals the district court's decision to order Tidwell to serve his sentences for rape and trading child pornography consecutive to each other. Tidwell argues that the district court should have made the sentences concurrent with one another so that he might have a reasonable chance to be released from prison before old age.

But whether a defendant should be ordered to serve sentences consecutively (one after the other) or concurrently (at the same time) is a judgment call for the district court to make, subject to review only for abuse of discretion. We find no abuse of…