What is the range of determinate sentences in a criminal case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from The People v. Ramirez, No. 1282053, No. B215205 (Cal. App. 2010):
The trial court was required to impose sentence on each of counts 12 through 15. But it was also required to stay execution of the lesser sentences. (People v. Alford (2010) 180 Cal.App.4th 1463, 1472; People v. Niles (1964) 227 Cal.App.2d 749, 755-756.) The trial court selected count 12 as the principal term for the determinate sentence and imposed the middle term of seven years. On count 14,
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