New York Court of Appeals, 1965

People v. Birmingham

People v. Birmingham
New York Court of Appeals · Decided October 28, 1965
16 N.Y.2d 984; 212 N.E.2d 780; 265 N.Y.S.2d 295; 1965 N.Y. LEXIS 1053

People v. Birmingham

Opinion

*985 Judgment modified and matter remitted to the Supreme Court, Richmond County, so as to provide for the imposition of a sentence to run concurrently instead of consecutively and, as so modified, affirmed. (Penal Law, § 1938.) No opinion.

Concur: Chief Judge Desmond and Judges Fuld, Van Voorhis, Burke and Bergan. Judges Dye and Scileppi dissent and vote to affirm. (See People ex rel. Maurer v. Jackson, 2 N Y 2d 259; People v. Erickson, 302 N. Y. 461; cf. People v. Di Lapo, 14 N Y 2d 170.) The consecutive sentence was permissible under section 1938 of the Penal Law.

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