Ordered that the amended sentences are vacated, on the law, and the sentences imposed on June 25, 1987, are reinstated in their entirety.
The defendant contends that the Supreme Court erred in amending the original legal sentences which, although imposed nearly three years earlier, had never commenced. We agree. The Criminal Procedure Law is silent on the power of the court to change a legal sentence prior to the commencement of the term or period of the sentence...
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