Hon. William H. Burgess, III, B.C.S.
The basic alternatives for concurrent and consecutive sentencing alternatives under Florida law are as follows:
Discretionary Consecutive Sentencing
Same Indictment, Information, or Affidavit: A defendant convicted of two or more offenses charged in the same indictment, information, or affidavit or in consolidated indictments, informations, or affidavits must serve the sentences of imprisonment concurrently unless the court directs that two or more of the sentences be served consecutively.1 The court must affirmatively express its intention that such sentences are to run concurrently; otherwise, they will run consecutively.2
