In addition to pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter, defendant pleaded guilty to a count charging him with criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree under Penal Law § 265.03 (3). Pursuant to Penal Law § 70.25 (2), sentences for two or more offenses may not run consecutively where either a single act constitutes the offenses or a single act constitutes one offense and is a material element of the other (Penal Law § 70.25 [2]; People v Laureano...
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