Defendant is not entitled to serve the sentence on his 1993 drug conviction concurrently with the sentence imposed on his 1991 murder conviction. Although a sentence not specified by the court to be consecutive is automatically concurrent (Penal Law § 70.25[1][a]), and the minutes of the 1993 sentencing (first ordered by defendant in 2009) have been lost, there is ample evidence that the court (Bonnie G. Wittner, J.) pronounced a sentence that was consecutive to the...
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