People v. Woodard

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Albany County, rendered May 16, 1974, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of the crime of grand larceny in the third degree, a class E felony. The record establishes that, prior to withdrawing his original plea of not guilty and entering a plea of guilty on May 3, 1974, the court and the defendant, with his counsel, agreed that the defendant had such a record as would make him a multiple felony offender with a maximum of life imprisonment and that one of the reasons for the plea of guilty was a promise that the minimum punishment of one…