Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 22 - CORRECTIONS, CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
Part IX - Sentencing Commission
Subpart 1 - Felony Sentencing Guidelines
Chapter 2 - Determining Sentences Under the Sentencing Guidelines
Section IX-215 - Concurrent and Consecutive Sentences

1. The sentencing court may impose either concurrent or consecutive sentences in cases where a defendant has been convicted of two or more offenses. In determining whether to impose either a concurrent or a consecutive sentence, the court should consider aggravating and mitigating circumstances which may be present.

2. If two or more criminal acts are based on the same act or transaction, or constitute parts of a common scheme or plan, concurrent sentences should be imposed.

3. In all other cases, concurrent or consecutive sentences should be supported by appropriate factors. If a consecutive sentence is imposed, the court shall state for the record the factors considered and the reasons for imposition of a consecutive sentence.

4. If statutory law requires that a sentence be imposed either concurrently or consecutively, the sentences must be imposed in the manner prescribed by law.

1. Concurrent Sentences of Incarceration

2. Concurrent Intermediate Sanction Sentences

1. The base sentence range is established by determining, from the appropriate cell in the grid, the designated sentence range for the most serious offense of conviction. The most serious offense is the offense with the longest statutory term of incarceration or the offense with the longest term of incarceration within the designated sentence range under the guidelines, whichever is greater.

2. After the base sentence range for the most serious offense has been determined, the remaining offenses provide the additional penalty to be imposed. No more than 50 percent of the minimum of the grid range for each of the subsequent offenses for which the offender is being sentenced should be added.

3. If the offense from which the base sentence range is determined requires imposition of a term of incarceration at hard labor, the entire term of imprisonment imposed should be at hard labor.