People v. Torres Rentas

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward McLaughlin, J.), rendered September 6, 1989, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree and sentencing him to a term of 8 years to life, and order of the same court and Justice, entered June 22, 1992, denying defendant’s CPL article 440 motion to vacate said judgment, unanimously affirmed.

At the plea proceeding, defendant made a full waiver of his rights, acknowledged that he was pleading guilty knowingly and voluntarily in order to receive a more lenient sentence, and…