State of Arizona v. Shawnte Shuree Jones

Justice BRUTINEL,

opinion of the Court.

¶ 1 AR.S. § 13-116 requires that concurrent sentences be imposed on a defendant whose convictions stem from a single act. Conversely, A.R.S. § 13-705(M) requires that sentences imposed on a defendant convicted of certain dangerous crimes against children run consecutively even when the underlying convictions arise from a single act. Resolving the conflict between these statutes, we hold that the trial court properly imposed consecutive sentences pursuant to § 13-705(M).

I. BACKGROUND

¶ 2 Shawnte Jones called 911 to report that her daughter had accidentally…