People v. Thomas

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Larry Stephen, J., at plea; Ronald A. Zweibel, J., at sentencing), rendered September 21, 2011, convicting defendant of attempted rape in the first degree and attempted intimidating a victim or witness in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant’s plea withdrawal motion. When defendant asserted that he had not been taking his psychiatric medication at the time of his plea, the sentencing court gave him a…