When any person is convicted of two or more offenses, and sentenced to confinement, such sentences shall not run concurrently, unless expressly ordered by the court.
Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-308
When two or more sentences run concurrently
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 68 Va. App. 177 - Commonwealth of Virginia v. Shawn Lynn Botkin (2017)
Most recently applied in 68 Va. App. 177 - Commonwealth of Virginia v. Shawn Lynn Botkin (October 2017)
Code 1950, § 19.1-294; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.