Administration of Justice Bulletin #2025/01

Under new Section 1340.16F of G.S. Chapter 15A (effective March 1, 2024), if a person is convicted of two or more of the same financial crime offenses, the offenses may be aggregated for sentencing. Aggregation under G.S. 15A-1340.16F allows a greater range of sentence durations than was previously possible, a feature that will be particularly important to prosecutors and defenders seeking to negotiate a plea agreement. This bulletin identifies which financial crime offenses are eligible for aggregation, how and when these offenses may be aggregated, and what the punishment consequences are for this type of sentence enhancement.