People v. Moret

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd Goodman, J.), rendered February 17, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in refusing to accept defendant’s offer to plead guilty to a lesser offense when, during the plea allocution, defendant flatly denied his guilt. A plea of guilty to less than the entire indictment may not be entered as of right, but only with the permission of…