People v. Gene SS

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Franklin County, rendered March 3, 1975, which adjudicated the appellant a youthful offender. On the instant appeal, appellant urges that he lacked effective assistance of counsel, that he entered a plea of guilty only because his attorney promised him a sentence of probation, and that his sentence was cruel and unusual and deprived him of equal protection. We find no merit in any of these contentions. The conduct of his retained counsel cannot on the instant record possibly be characterized as "so ineffective as to make the *1065proceedings a mockery of…