multiple counts
Several separate causes of action or charged offenses contained in a single pleading or indictment. [Cases: Pleading 50. C.J.S. Pleading §§ 147–148.]
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multiple party account
An account that has more than one owner with a current or future interest in the account. • Multiple-party accounts include joint accounts, payable-on-death (P.O.D.) accounts, and trust accounts. Unif. Probate Code § 6-201(5).
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aggregate sentence
A sentence that arises from a conviction on multiple counts in an indictment. [Cases: Sentencing and Punishment 642–643. C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 1459–1460, 1463, 1465, 1472, 1517–1523, 1525.]
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joinder of offenses
The charging of an accused with two or more crimes as multiple counts in a single indictment or information. • Unless later severed, joined offenses are tried together at a single trial. Fed. R. Crim. P. 8(a). [Cases: Indictment and Information 125. C.J.S. Indictments and Informations §§ 146–148.]
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sentence package rule
sentence-package rule. Criminal procedure. The principle that a defendant can be resentenced on an aggregate sentence — that is, one arising from a conviction on multiple counts in an indictment — when the defendant successfully challenges part of the conviction, as by successfully challenging some but not all of the counts.
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plea bargain
plea bargain, n. A negotiated agreement between a prosecutor and a criminal defendant whereby the defendant pleads guilty to a lesser offense or to one of multiple charges in exchange for some concession by the prosecutor, usu. a more lenient sentence or a dismissal of the other charges. — Also termed plea agreement; negotiated plea;