BRAGDON v. U.S.

No. 97-CO-425.

717 A.2d 878 (1998)

Anthony E. BRAGDON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 10, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Caroline M. Brown, with whom Nancy Dickinson, Washington, DC, was on the brief, for appellant.

T. Anthony Quinn, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Wilma A. Lewis, United States Attorney, and John R. Fisher and Patricia Stewart, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before WAGNER, Chief Judge, KING, Associate Judge, Retired, and MACK, Senior Judge.


KING, Associate Judge, Retired:

In this case we are asked to decide whether a sentencing judge, when sentencing a defendant on multiple charges under the Youth Rehabilitation Act ("YRA"),1 may impose the sentences consecutively. We conclude that consecutive sentences in those circumstances are permissible.

The governing facts are not in dispute. On April 30, 1992, after a jury had convicted Bragdon of single counts of armed assault...

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