A state appeals court has ordered resentencing for a defendant found to be a violent felony offender based on a Georgia conviction that judges said was not equivalent to its purported New York analog.
The Appellate Division, Fourth Department’s, 4-1 majority said the 1999 conviction of Marlo Helms under Georgia’s burglary statute was not the equivalent of a burglary in New York.
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