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Facts

• The Defendant was initially sentenced to a deferred sentence of three years and supervised probation for two felony offenses in 2008. While on probation, the Defendant was arrested in 2010 and charged with several offenses, including kidnapping and aggravated assault, leading to a probation violation. The Defendant admitted to the probation violations, and after being convicted of aggravated assault from the 2010 charges, the court consolidated the sentencing for the probation violation and the new conviction, imposing consecutive sentences.

Procedural History

• [Not applicable or not found]

Parties' Submissions

• Defendant-Appellant: Argued that if the cases had not been informally consolidated for sentencing, the sentences might have been concurrent, allowing the 520 days of presentence confinement to apply to both cases. Also claimed ineffective assistance of counsel, alleging improper advice regarding the consolidation's consequences for sentencing.
• Plaintiff-Appellee: [Not applicable or not found]

Legal Issues

• Whether the informal consolidation of cases for sentencing was erroneous, potentially entitling the Defendant to have his sentences run concurrently and to receive dual credit for 520 days of presentence confinement.
• Whether the Defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel due to the alleged improper advice regarding the consequences of consolidating the cases for sentencing.

Disposition

• The court affirmed the sentence, rejecting the Defendant's arguments regarding the informal consolidation for sentencing and the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.

Reasons

• TIMOTHY L. GARCIA, Judge (JAMES J. WECHSLER, Judge and J. MILES HANISEE, Judge concurring): The court found no authority supporting the Defendant's entitlement to separate sentencing hearings or that the consolidation for sentencing was erroneous. It held that when a defendant receives consecutive sentences, presentence confinement credit applies only against the aggregate of all sentences, not separately for each case. Regarding the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, the court determined that the Defendant failed to establish that counsel's performance was deficient or that he was prejudiced by the alleged improper advice, noting the speculative nature of the claim that separate sentencing could have resulted in non-consecutive sentences.