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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. TOMMY SHORT, Appellant.

Judgment, insofar as it imposes sentence, unanimously modified to provide that the sentences shall be served concurrently, and otherwise judgment affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant was convicted of criminal facilitation in the second degree (Penal Law, § 115.00 [former]) and criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree (Penal Law, § 165.40) as lesser included crimes under counts in the indictment charging, respectively, burglary in the second degree and robbery in the first degree. He was sentenced to a one-year term of imprisonment on each count, to be served consecutively. Although defendant could properly be convicted of both crimes (Penal Law, § 165.60, subd 2), the imposition of consecutive sentences was improper (see Hechtman, Supplementary Practice Commentaries, McKinney's Cons Laws of N.Y., Book 39, Penal Law § 165.60 [Cumulative Annual Pocket Part, 1978-1979], p 48). The crimes charged in the indictment were part of a single transaction or event, and thus the sentences must run concurrently (Penal Law, § 70.25, subd 2).

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PEOPLE v. SHORT
(Apr 6, 1979)