Defendant's sentence must be vacated as the court below, in sentencing defendant to the maximum term permitted by law, was improperly influenced by its belief that defendant had received a "hopelessly inadequate" one-year sentence on his prior conviction. We have previously noted that it is inappropriate for a Judge to take into consideration in formulating a sentence his opinion that the defendant's prior sentences by other Judges were "less than adequate". (People v...
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