Is there any case law where the trial court erred in imposing concurrent prison sentences for defendants with prior convictions?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Peters, B256646 (Cal. App. 2015):
First, the trial court erred in imposing concurrent terms for defendants' prison priors ( 667.5, subd. (b)). Such priors should have been stricken because they were based on the serious felony convictions that supported the imposition of each defendant's five-year enhancement under section 667, subdivision (a)(1). (See People v. Jones (1993) 5 Cal.4th 1142, 1152-1153.)
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