When any person commits several crimes that are judged simultaneously and each of the crimes entails its own punishment, an aggregate penalty shall be imposed upon the person, which shall be determined as follows:\n(a) When one of the crimes entails imprisonment for ninety-nine (99) years, said term shall absorb the others.\n(b) When one or more of the crimes entails imprisonment for ninety-nine (99) years, an aggregate penalty of twenty percent (20%) shall be imposed for each victim.\n(c) In the remaining cases, a penalty for each crime shall be imposed and added together, but the full amount shall not exceed the aggregate penalty of twenty percent (20%) of the maximum range of penalties for the most felonious.\nHistory —June 18, 2004, No. 149, § 79, eff. May 1, 2005.
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