Defendant was sentenced in 1999 as a second felony offender, and was therefore subject to the consecutive sentencing provisions of Penal Law § 70.25 (2-a). Where a sentencing court is required by statute to impose a consecutive sentence, it is deemed to have imposed the consecutive sentence the law requires, even in the absence of an express judicial directive to that effect (People ex rel. Gill v Greene,
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