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HERE THE PLEA ALLOCUTION DID NOT INDICATE TWO SEPARATE AND DISTINCT ACTS WERE ENCOMPASSED BY COUNTS 2 AND 3; THEREFORE CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES FOR THOSE COUNTS SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN IMPOSED (FOURTH DEPT). ​

The Fourth Department, vacating defendant’s consecutive sentences, determined there was no evidence the counts to which defendant pled guilty involved two separate and distinct acts:

Sentences imposed for two or more offenses may not run consecutively where, inter alia, “a single act constitutes two offenses” … . Thus, in order for a consecutive sentence to be legally imposed, the People have the burden of demonstrating by “identifiable facts . . . that the defendant’s acts underlying the crimes are separate and distinct” … . Where, as here, the defendant is “convicted upon a plea to a lesser offense than that charged in the indictment, the People may rely only on those facts and circumstances admitted during the plea allocution” in order to meet that burden … .

Here, no facts were adduced at defendant’s plea allocution that would establish two separate and distinct acts causing injury to the victims named in counts 2 and 3, and thus there was no basis for imposing consecutive sentences for those counts … . People v Wright, 2024 NY Slip Op 03613, Fourth Dept 7-3-24

Practice Point: To impose consecutive sentences based upon a guilty plea, the plea allocution must demonstrate the counts encompass separate and distinct acts.​

 

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