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by akerl_ 963 days ago
"consecutively" in this context is sort of right. But in practice, the charges group together. So if you get charged with 1000 counts of wire fraud, you don't math out 1000 sentences and then decide which ones are consecutive and which are sequential, you math out one wire fraud sentence and for the 'but how many times did you do it' multiplier, you get an extra hit for being prolific.

The parallel commenter linked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr8gSdJ_Ggw&t=272s , which is a great example. https://popehat.substack.com/p/beware-the-flood-of-trump-sen... is another, if text / blogs is a better medium, or the slightly older https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc... from the same author.