Consecutive life sentences may leave you ineligible for parole longer than
concurrent life sentences, or may force «life without parole» even if each individual crime was one where the maximum sentence included the possibility of parole.
The court held that: (i) There is nothing unlawful about the imposition of a
concurrent or consecutive
sentence within either regimes relating to extended
sentences, and where
sentences of
life imprisonment or imprisonment for public protection are imposed.