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PEOPLE v. RICHARDSON

100 N.Y.2d 847 (2003)

799 N.E.2d 607

767 N.Y.S.2d 384

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. WILLIAM HENRY RICHARDSON, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided October 21, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Center for Appellate Litigation, New York City (William A. Loeb and Robert S. Dean of counsel), for appellant.

Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York City (Susan Gliner and Mark Dwyer of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge KAYE and Judges SMITH, CIPARICK, ROSENBLATT and READ concur.

OPINION OF THE COURT

GRAFFEO, J.

We are asked in this appeal to decide if a trial court has the inherent power to modify its lawful sentence of imprisonment where the court did not specify whether the sentence was to run consecutively or concurrently to an undischarged term of imprisonment on an unrelated conviction. Because the record of the original sentencing proceeding in this case does not suggest that...

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