[T.Smith]

He served time for more than just the rape.

"The jury took less than two hours in convicting Briscoe of rape, sodomy, robbery, burglary, stealing and three counts of armed criminal action."

I've never had it adequately explained to me why a person can commit one crime, but be charged with breaking several laws. For example, one might be charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, assault, kidnapping and possibly more. It seems to me that the crime is just murder.

[Shimmer128]

You don't see where there could be many crimes within one??

Odd.

[absolootezer0]

I've never had it adequately explained to me why a person can commit one crime, but be charged with breaking several laws

its all about the lawyers. charge a man for murder and find out that it was unintentional (he just wanted to hurt victim) lawyer will have the charges dropped. charge him for a whole bunch of things and hope that something sticks, and hope that if you get conviction on 3/8 crimes the perp will (hopefully) get a worse sentance.
that and its hard to break just one law when you start being bad.

[Blackirish]

A few years ago there was a case where a prisoner was caught breaking out and had hard time added on.

Well he was acquitted of the original crime but they made him serve time for trying to escape.

Wadda rip.