Legal Opinion
People v. Lu Yang Tong
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 28, 1997PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Rockland County (Nelson, J.), rendered June 20, 1995, convicting him of assault in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that his guilty plea should be set aside because a language barrier inhibited his understanding of the proceedings. However, to the extent that the defendant claims that he did not understand the plea allocution because of his inability to speak English, his claims are unpreserved for appellate review in the absence of a…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- People v. ValdiviaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993
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