I am no lawyer. But my guess is that when you commit a crime, they look at each and every action of yours and try to find out which all laws and how many times

I am no lawyer. But my guess is that when you commit a crime, they look at each and every action of yours and try to find out which all laws and how many times were you breaking them. Then they weigh in the sentence or each of them separately and add them up eventually amounting them to disproportionate numbers (35 yrs) in many cases. I think theoretically this number can run unto multiple of 100s even.