| People v Butchino |
| 2008 NY Slip Op 00005 [47 AD3d 966] |
| January 3, 2008 |
| Appellate Division, Third Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Roy J. Butchino, Appellant. |
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Derek P. Champagne, District Attorney, Malone (Glenn MacNeill of counsel), for
respondent.
Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Franklin County (Main, Jr., J.), rendered August 4, 2006, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crimes of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree and grand larceny in the third degree.
Defendant was charged in two separate indictments with a number of theft-related crimes. In
satisfaction of both, he pleaded guilty to offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree
and grand larceny in the third degree. At the time of the plea, no specific agreement was made
with respect to the sentences to be imposed, except that they would run concurrently. Moreover,
defendant agreed to waive his right to appeal all matters except for the sentence. At sentencing,
County Court announced that defendant would serve 1
Defendant argues that an illegal sentence was imposed because he should have received a
minimum prison term of 1
Cardona, P.J., Mercure, Rose, Lahtinen and Kane, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by vacating the sentence imposed upon defendant's conviction of grand larceny in the third degree; matter remitted to the County Court of Franklin County for resentencing; and, as so modified, affirmed.