People v. Zelaya

Judgments, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert Straus, J.), rendered May 30, 1997, convicting defendant, upon his pleas of guilty, of one count of criminal sale of a controlled substance in or near school grounds and two counts of attempted murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to consecutive terms of 2 to 6 years, 3 to 6 years and 3 to 6 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s claim that his pleas were rendered involuntary by the court’s statement, without mention of the mitigating circumstances provision of Penal Law § 70.25 (2-b), that his sentences were required to be…