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STATE v. JONES

No. CR-13-0292-PR.

334 P.3d 191 (2014)

STATE of Arizona, Appellee, v. Shawnte Shuree JONES, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Arizona.

September 3, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Horne, Arizona Attorney General, Robert L. Ellman, Solicitor General, Joseph T. Maziarz, Section Chief Counsel, Criminal Appeals Section, Alice Jones (argued), Assistant Attorney General, Phoenix, for State of Arizona.

Theresa M. Armendarez (argued), Manteo, NC, for Shawntee Shuree Jones.

Justice BRUTINEL authored the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice BALES, Vice Chief Justice PELANDER, Justice BERCH, and Justice TIMMER joined.

Justice BRUTINEL, opinion of the Court.

¶ 1 A.R.S. § 13-116 requires that concurrent sentences be imposed on a defendant whose convictions stem from a single act. Conversely, A.R.S. § 13-705(M) requires that sentences imposed on a defendant convicted of certain dangerous crimes against children run consecutively even when the underlying convictions arise from a single act. Resolving the conflict between these statutes, we hold that the trial court properly...

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