People v. Ramdass

*1140The defendant pleaded guilty in exchange for the court’s promise that he would be sentenced to two concurrent determinate prison terms of 6V2 years’ imprisonment and a five-year period of postrelease supervision. The People did not object to the plea, but took the position that the promised sentence was too lenient. At sentencing, before a different justice, the victim and her father asked that the Supreme Court sentence the defendant to a more lenient term than promised, but the court several times expressed the erroneous belief that it was bound by the promise made by the justice who…