The court's vacatur of the unlawful determinate sentence of 7 years originally imposed and its imposition of the lawful sentence of 5 to 10 years did not violate the prohibition against double jeopardy. Given all relevant legal and practical considerations concerning parole and conditional release, the two sentences were sufficiently comparable that defendant's legitimate
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