Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Mercogliano v. County Court of Nassau County
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided June 16, 1976No. 76 C 355PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
PLATT, District Judge.
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
New York’s second felony offender statute (Penal Law § 70.06) provides that indeterminate sentences of specified maximum and minimum lengths must be imposed on offenders convicted of a felony for the second time. Until the statute was amended in 1975, the earlier “felony conviction” was defined to be a conviction in New York of a felony, 1 or a conviction in another jurisdiction of an offense for which a sentence of imprisonment of more than one year (or a sentence of death) was authorized, 2 provided that such earlier conviction,…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Duncan v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Miller v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Hamling v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- F. S. Royster Guano Co. v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1920
- Gooding v. WilsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by6 opinions
- People v. CruzCriminal Court of the City of New York · 1985
- Dillard v. LaValleeDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1977
- People v. ShapiroNew York Supreme Court · 1979
- Smith v. WestDistrict Court, W.D. New York · 2009
- Mercogliano v. County Court of Nassau CountyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1976
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