¶ With commendable candor the District Attorney concedes that defendant's sentence of 12½ to 25 years on his conviction of manslaughter in the first degree, a class B violent felony offense, was illegal. Absent a finding that defendant was a predicate felon, not the case here, the minimum period of imprisonment that may be imposed for a violent felony offense cannot exceed one third of the maximum, unless the sentence is for a conviction of a class B armed felony...
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