Defendant pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the first degree and was sentenced in accordance with his plea bargain to a term of 7 to 21 years. On appeal, 11 years after the crime although only approximately two years after the plea, defendant argues that his sentence was unlawful pursuant to Penal Law § 70.04 in that, as a second violent felony offender, he should have received a minimum sentence of one half the maximum, not one third the maximum. Accordingly, it is...
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