People v. Tatum
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtKavanagh, J.
Defendant pleaded guilty to the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and waived his right to appeal. County Court sentenced him as a second felony drug offender to a prison term of eight years, to be followed by three years of postrelease supervision. Defendant now appeals.
We affirm. Defendant claims that he received the ineffective assistance of counsel in that he was not advised of statutory changes, enacted shortly before his sentencing, that lowered the minimum permissible prison term in his case (see Penal Law § 70.70 [3] [b] [i]; see also L 2009, ch…
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