People v. Jones

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence H. Bernstein, J., at plea; Robert H. Straus, J., at sentence), rendered April 16, 2003, convicting defendant of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly imposed a prison sentence pursuant to defendant’s plea agreement after defendant concededly violated that agreement by leaving a drug program without permission and thereby forfeited his opportunity for a more lenient disposition (see e.g. People v Felipe, 309…