People v. Moquin

*451OPINION OF THE COURT

Titone, J.

We have previously held that when a court has accepted a guilty plea and the defendant has begun to serve the resulting sentence, the court has no statutory or "inherent” authority to vacate the judgment at the People’s request, except in certain limited circumstances (see, Matter of Kisloff v Covington, 73 NY2d 445; Matter of Campbell v Pesce, 60 NY2d 165). In this case, we are asked to consider whether a different principle should be applied when the guilty plea was entered after the dismissal of one of the counts in a multicount indictment and the dismissal…