Bryant E. Wilson v. State of Indiana

DAVID, Justice.

When a defendant is convicted for multiple crimes arising out of a single course of criminal conduct, Indiana’s sentencing statutes provide trial courts with some discretion in ordering the individual sentences for those crimes to run consecutively or concurrently. Here, a defendant’s aggregate sentence was imposed in such a way that one of the individual sentences was effectively a hybrid — it was ordered partially concurrent to the other sentences, and partially consecutive.

Is this form of sentence permissible? Because trial courts are limited to sentences authorized by…