The issue on this appeal involves the meaning and application of the "mitigating circumstance[ ]" sentencing authorization in Penal Law § 70.25 (2-b). Specifically, we must decide whether the trial court appropriately exercised its narrow statutorily invested discretion in imposing a concurrent rather than consecutive sentence for a violent felony crime committed while defendant was free on...
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