Joint sentence following multiple convictions - national proceedings

Ukraine

Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine 2012 (2020)

Section V

EXECUTION OF COURT’S JUDGMENT, RULING, AND DECISION

Chapter 33

EXECUTION OF COURT’S JUDGMENT, RULING, AND DECISION

Article 413. Imposing a punishment in case of several judgments

Whenever a judgment exists in respect of a convicted person which has not been executed and of which the court which decreed the last by time judgment was unaware, the court operating in the place where its judgment is executed is required to define the way in which all sentences should be served under Article 71 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine ( 2341-14 ). This issue is disposed as prescribed in Article 411 of the present Code: by decision of the judge of district, city district, city and interdistrict court if all judgments were decreed by single judges; by decision of the judge of district, city district, city and interdistrict court if at least one of the judgments was decreed by panel of judges in a district, city district, city and interdistrict court; ruling of the Court of Appeals of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, oblast appellate courts, appellate courts of the city of Kyiv and Sevastopol if at least one judgment was decreed by the Court of Appeals of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, oblast appellate courts, appellate courts of the city of Kyiv and Sevastopol.

Rome Statute

Article 78 Determination of the sentence

3. When a person has been convicted of more than one crime, the Court shall pronounce a sentence for each crime and a joint sentence specifying the total period of imprisonment. This period shall be no less than the highest individual sentence pronounced and shall not exceed 30 years imprisonment or a sentence of life imprisonment in conformity with article 77, paragraph 1 (b).