Legislative Challenges and Problems with the Enforcement of Aggregation of Sentences

Committing multiple offenses by one person may increase the punishment. Determining and enforcing intensified penalties and enforcing regulations concerning the multiplicity of cases where all the offenses are in the jurisdiction of a reference is not particularly challenging. But there are numerous legal and enforcement challenges to enforcing multiplicity of regulations when issuing different sentences from multiple jurisdictions. The legislator has come up with Article 510 of the Code of Criminal Procedure to address the challenges of enforcing the multiplicity of laws. Examination of the numerous opinions of various judicial authorities indicates that there are numerous difficulties and disagreements in the courts with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 510 which prescribe and assign this matter. The examination of some of the opinions in this article indicates the necessity of revising this article in relation to some of the problems encountered in the courts, including the challenges to the application of multivariate criminal offenses, both material and spiritual, to Article 510. The Code of Criminal Procedure, the manner in which a higher court is designated by the primitive body of proceedings, the scope and concept of material non-comment by the aggregation authority, the possibility of mitigating the punishment after the application of the multiplication provisions, etc.