The following excerpt is from People v. Couser, 2016 N.Y. Slip Op. 07831, 28 N.Y.3d 368, 45 N.Y.S.3d 301, 68 N.E.3d 26 (N.Y. 2016):
Under section 70.25(2), "sentences imposed for two or more offenses may not run consecutively: (1) where a single act constitutes two offenses, or (2) where a single act constitutes one of the offenses and a material element of the other" (People v. Laureano, 87 N.Y.2d 640, 643, 642 N.Y.S.2d 150, 664 N.E.2d 1212 [1996] ).
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