People v. Rowley

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Orange County (Byrne, J.), rendered February 10, 1995, convicting him of attempted murder in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

While it is true that the psychiatric and psychological evaluations which were performed on the defendant revealed a history of substance abuse and paranoid schizophrenia, there is no basis in the record to support the conclusion that at the time of the plea proceeding, the defendant lacked the capacity to understand the proceedings…