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People v. Thomas

49 A.D.2d 638 Court N.Y. App. Div. Decision date 1975-07-23 English

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Gordon P. Thomas, Appellant.

Appeal by defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County, imposed August 1, 1973, upon his conviction of robbery in the second degree, upon a plea of guilty, the sentence being a period of imprisonment of up to five years, to be served concurrently with a previously imposed term of imprisonment in a Federal

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penitentiary. Sentence reversed, on the law, and case remanded to Criminal Term for resentence. A sentence to a State penal institution cannot run concurrently with a previously imposed sentence to a Federal penitentiary (People v Schatz, 45 AD2d 853 ). Gulotta, P. J., Hopkins, Cohalan, Brennan and Munder, JJ., concur.