People v. Gillette

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (A. Kirke Bartley, Jr., J.), rendered April 22, 2013, as amended June 11, 2013, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of sexual abuse in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second child sexual assault offender, to a term of eight years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion (see generally People v Coppez, 93 NY2d 249, 252 [1999]) in denying defendant’s request on the eve of trial for a two-week adjournment to allow him to consider a plea offer, after he had rejected other plea offers in the past. We note that,…