Legal Opinion

People v. Williams

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided March 14, 2000Published

1Opinion of the Court

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Frank Torres, J.), rendered November 12, 1999, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a juvenile offender, to a term of 1 to 3 years, unanimously affirmed.

The sentencing court properly exercised its discretion when it denied defendant’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea. The record establishes that the plea bargain was based on the sentencing court’s agreement to consider sentencing defendant as a youthful offender, not its promise to actually do so. Accordingly, defendant received all that…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. People v. MosleyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1982

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