People v. Stephenson

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Columbia County (Czajka, J.), rendered April 20, 2005, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree.

Defendant waived indictment and agreed to be prosecuted by a superior court information charging him with one count of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree. Defendant pleaded guilty to the criminal sale count in November 2004, and he was subsequently sentenced as a second felony offender to a prison term of 41/2 to 9 years in April 2005. In January…