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People v. Van Nguyen

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department
Dec 23, 1994
210 A.D.2d 871 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)

Opinion

December 23, 1994

Appeal from the Oneida County Court, Buckley, J.

Present — Green, J.P., Pine, Balio, Callahan and Boehm, JJ.


Judgment unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed in accordance with the following Memorandum: Defendant failed to preserve for review his contentions that his conviction of three counts of kidnapping in the second degree should be reversed pursuant to the merger doctrine, that the trial court erred in submitting a verdict sheet to the jury and that prosecutorial misconduct deprived him of a fair trial (see, CPL 470.05). We decline to review those contentions as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice (see, CPL 470.15 [a]).

We conclude, however, that the court erred in imposing a term of imprisonment for the third count, robbery in the first degree (Penal Law § 160.15), to run consecutively to the term of imprisonment for the first count, burglary in the first degree (Penal Law § 140.30). All other sentences were concurrent. Under the circumstances of this case, we conclude that those offenses were committed through a single act (see, People v McCloud, 182 A.D.2d 835, 838, lv denied 80 N.Y.2d 906; see also, People v Smiley, 121 A.D.2d 274, 275, lv denied 68 N.Y.2d 817; People v Jackson, 73 A.D.2d 1060). Thus, we modify the sentence to direct that the term of imprisonment imposed for the third count of the indictment run concurrently to the term of imprisonment imposed for the first count (see, Penal Law § 70.25).

There is no merit to defendant's contention that the sentence otherwise is harsh or excessive.


Summaries of

People v. Van Nguyen

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department
Dec 23, 1994
210 A.D.2d 871 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)
Case details for

People v. Van Nguyen

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. HAU VAN NGUYEN…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department

Date published: Dec 23, 1994

Citations

210 A.D.2d 871 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)
621 N.Y.S.2d 973