Plaintiff claims that defendants committed malpractice by erroneously advising him, at sentencing, that any reduction for "good behavior" in his Federal sentence of 35 months for tax evasion would be applied to reduce his concurrent State sentence of 35 months to 9 years for grand larceny, such that his State sentence would be deemed served upon his release from Federal prison. The claim is barred by plaintiff's guilty plea (Carmel v Lunney,
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