At issue before the Court of Appeals recently was the question whether a defendant could - by sacrificing an illegally lenient sentence on a prior conviction - remove a predicate conviction by effectively moving his conviction date from before the current crime was comhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifmitted to after.The answer under the facts in this case was no (People v Acevedo, 2011 NY Slip Op 05582 [decided June 30, 2011]). [read post]