Foster v. State

NIMMONS, Judge.

This is an appeal from the trial court’s imposition of consecutive sentences which departed from the sentencing guidelines. We reverse and remand for resentencing.

Appellant pled guilty to two counts of issuing worthless checks and received one year of probation. Thereafter, appellant violated his probation and was sentenced to thirty months incarceration on each count to run consecutively for a total of sixty months. The recommended guidelines sentence was twelve to thirty months.

It is well-established that while a separate sentence must be imposed for each offense, the total…