People v. Davis

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered August 6, 1975, convicting him of rape in the first degree (in satisfaction of a 10-count indictment), upon a plea of guilty, and imposing sentence. Judgment affirmed. Defendant contends that his plea was coerced by statements of the Justice at Criminal Term. While the Wade hearing was in progress, the court and defendant engaged in a discussion as to a possible guilty plea. We consider the court’s statements, although no doubt made with the best of intentions, to have been highly *914improper. To get the flavor of…