State v. Herrera

OPINION

JACOBSON, Judge.

The principal issue in this appeal is whether a consecutive sentence is mandatory for a person convicted of attempted second-degree escape.

Defendant was originally convicted of aggravated robbery and sentenced to the Arizona Center for Women, a correctional facility. Before defendant completed her sentence, she escaped from the correctional facility. She was captured sometime thereafter and charged with second-degree escape in violation of A.R.S. § 13-2503.

Defendant entered into a plea agreement, as part of which she pled guilty to the lesser included offense of…