Donohue v. the State of New York

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “illegal sentence is one that is ‘in some way contrary to the applicable statute’ ”
• illegal sentence is one contrary to applicable statute or \premised on a major misunderstanding by the sentencing judge as to the legal bounds of his authority\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).