Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the event that a person is convicted of a criminal offense in any court of this Commonwealth and such person has also been sentenced to imprisonment for a term of one year or more by a court of the United States, or any other state or territory, and, at the time of sentencing in this Commonwealth, is incarcerated in a federal or state penal institution, the court may order the sentence to run concurrently with the sentence imposed by such other court.
Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-308.1
When sentence may run concurrently with sentence in another jurisdiction
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Rease v. Commonwealth (1984)
Most recently applied in Rease v. Commonwealth (April 1984)
1977, c. 344.
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