Legal Question in Constitutional Law in Florida

Re: concurrent

In the criminal law 'concurrent' usually refers to sentencing options a judge has when the defendant before him has been convicted of two or more crimes. In street lingo concurrent sentences are called "side-by-side" as each day of a prison sentence served counts as a day for each crime, or doing a "twofer." The opposite of concurrent is 'consecutive' or "stacked", meaning when one completes a sentence for the first crime, s/he then proceeds to serve the second sentence, and so forth.