People v. Kirkland

OPINION OF THE COURT

Jerome L. Reinstein, J.

Because of a presumably unintentional omission by our Legislature it now appears possible for a person with a less than five-year-old class B misdemeanor conviction who is convicted by a jury of certain class A misdemeanors in the New York City Criminal Court to receive a maximum sen*488tence of one year, while another person with a less than five-year-old armed violent felony conviction convicted by a jury of the same class A misdemeanor in the Supreme Court could only receive a maximum sentence of six months.

This strange result seems to be an…