People v. Austro

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Sheridan, J.), entered October 16, 1996 in Schenectady County, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of driving while intoxicated.

At 1:48 a.m. on July 23, 1995, William Gallop, a police officer with the Town of Glenville in Schenectady County, noticed a *834pickup truck in the parking lot of a closed automobile dealership where there had been several recent larcenies. When he drove into the driveway to ask defendant, the driver of the vehicle, why he was in the parking lot, defendant drove oif and proceeded down State Route 50.…