Opinion No. 17-81 (1981)

Dear Mr. Toan:

This is in response to a request from your predecessor for an opinion asking the following question:

If an individual receives two concurrent sentences, under the criminal code, one causing the conditional release term to be longer than the other, can the individual be held until the conditional release date for the longer sentence arrives? In the alternative, how are such sentences served?

Under the new criminal code, which became effective on January 1, 1979, a novel concept of serving a term of imprisonment, apparently not used by any other state, has been introduced in…