The Court of Appeals on Thursday affirmed a lower court’s ruling in an appeal by a persistent offender who had argued that increasing his prescribed minimum sentence on nonjury findings violated a U.S. Supreme Court decision.
The depraved indifference murder conviction of appellant Michael E. Prindle was reduced by the Court of Appeals in 2011 (NYLJ, Feb. 23, 2011) to reckless manslaughter, but he was re-sentenced to a term of 15 years-to-life as a persistent felony offender upon remand to the Monroe County Supreme Court.
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