Legal Opinion

People v. Smith

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided May 14, 1998Published

1Opinion of the Court

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Mary McGowan Davis, J.), rendered June 7, 1996, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2V2 to 5 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s motion to withdraw his plea was properly denied *449without a hearing. The record indicates that a favorable plea was entered after a thorough allocution, and that defendant admitted that he committed the charged acts, negating defendant’s conclusory claims of innocence, coercion, and…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. People v. FiumefreddoNew York Court of Appeals · 1993
  2. People v. SwinsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997

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