State v. Carey

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

COLEMAN, J.

This appeal requires us to revisit the standard for determining the appropriateness of consecutive sentences imposed during a single sentencing proceeding following a conviction on two counts of vehicular'homicide that involved multiple victims.

On the night of December 26, 1995, defendant, Joseph Carey, got behind the wheel of his motor vehicle after a long evening of drinking beer. That ill-fated decision to drive while intoxicated *419resulted in a head-on collision that caused two deaths. Defendant was convicted of, among other things, two…