Defendant seeks vacatur of his sentence and remand for resentencing on the ground that the sentencing court was under the erroneous impression that it lacked authority to impose a more lenient sentence than that agreed to on defendant's guilty plea. While it is well settled that "a court must exercise its discretion at sentencing, notwithstanding that a sentence was negotiated at the time of the plea, and must be free to impose a lesser penalty if warranted" (People...
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