Ford v. State

Karen R. Baker, Judge.

A Union County jury convicted appellant Joseph Franklin Ford of four counts of delivery of a controlled substance, four counts of possession of a controlled substance, and one charge of possession of drug paraphernalia and recommended sentencing of appellant to a total of one hundred fifty-three (153) years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. At trial, defense counsel made a motion to run the sentences concurrently, but the trial judge ran the same consecutively. On appeal, appellant asserts that the sentence was the result of sentence manipulation by law…