Sentencias en Virginia: Cumplimiento simultáneo y cárceles locales

Explicación Simple

Si alguien comete un crimen y ya está en prisión, puede que su nueva sentencia se cumpla al mismo tiempo que la anterior. Esto significa que no tendrá que esperar a salir de la primera prisión para comenzar a cumplir la segunda pena.

Es como si estuvieras cocinando dos platos al mismo tiempo en la cocina. Si uno ya está en el fuego, puedes empezar a preparar el segundo sin esperar a que el primero esté listo.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan fue condenado a dos años de prisión por un delito en Virginia, pero ya estaba cumpliendo una sentencia de tres años por un delito federal. El juez puede decidir que Juan cumpla ambas sentencias al mismo tiempo, así que solo estará en prisión un total de tres años.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

Va. Code § 19.2-308.1 - When sentence may run concurrently with sentence in another jurisdiction. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the event that a person is convicted of a criminal offense in any court of this Commonwealth and such person has also been sentenced to imprisonment for a term of one year or more by a court of the United States, or any other state or territory, and, at the time of sentencing in this Commonwealth, is incarcerated in a federal or state penal institution, the court may order the sentence to run concurrently with the sentence imposed by such other court. 1977, c. 344. Va. Code § 19.2-309 - Sentence of confinement for conviction of a combination of felony and misdemeanor offenses. When any person is convicted of a combination of felony and misdemeanor offenses and sentenced to confinement therefor, in determining the sequence of confinement, the felony sentence and commitment shall take precedence and such person shall first be committed to serve the felony sentence. Code 1950, § 19.1-295; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495. Va. Code § 19.2-309.1 - Sentence of confinement to jail farms maintained by the Cities of Danville, Martinsville and Newport News. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person sentenced to a term of incarceration of up to two years by the courts of the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit may be confined, at the discretion of the court and subject to applicable regulations, at the farm established and maintained by the City of Danville pursuant to § 53.1-96 ; any person sentenced to such term by the Twenty-first Judicial Circuit may be so confined at the farm so established and maintained by the City of Martinsville; and any person sentenced to such term by the Seventh Judicial Circuit may be so confined at th