People v. Bryant
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtShapiro, J.
After pleading guilty to various felonies, the defendants in the six above-captioned cases were sentenced as second felony offenders pursuant to the provisions of section 70.06 of the Penal Law. They now appeal from their .sentences. We affirm.
THE ISSUES
These appeals present common constitutional and statutory issues. One or more of the defendants pose the following questions: (1) whether section 70.06 of the Penal Law, which defines, and then prescribes, the sentence that a court must impose when it has found that a defendant is a second felony offender, violates the Federal constitutional…
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