People v. Green

QUINN, Chief Justice.

These consolidated appeals, filed by the People on a question of law, raise the issue of whether a district court may sentence an adult offender twenty-one years of age or older to the department of corrections for a misdemeanor conviction when the misdemeanor sentence is made expressly consecutive to a previously imposed sentence for a felony conviction. 1 We concludé that Colorado’s sentencing scheme does not authorize a court to sentence such an adult of fender to the department of corrections for a misdemeanor conviction unless the defendant has already been sentenced…