People v. Lopez

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Mclnerney, J.), rendered July 17, 1987, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

During the defendant’s plea allocution, the court indicated that it would sentence him to an indeterminate term of imprisonment not to exceed five years to life. The defendant acquiesced to this sentence ceiling as part of his plea of guilty. He was ultimately sentenced to an indeterminate term of four years’ to…