People v. Hecht

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Teresi, J.), rendered April 9, 2009 in Ulster County, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of robbery in the second degree, robbery in the third degree and grand larceny in the fourth degree.

Defendant was charged in 2007 with robbery in the first degree, burglary in the first degree, robbery in the second degree and grand larceny in the fourth degree. In May 2008, defendant pleaded guilty to burglary in the first degree in full satisfaction of the charges, with the understanding that he would be sentenced as a second violent felony…