People v. McDowell

—Judgment unanimously modified as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice and as modified affirmed in accordance with the following Memorandum: The record fails to support the contention that defendant’s guilty plea to murder in the second degree and conspiracy in the first degree was not entered knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily. Further, although defendant pleaded guilty to the most serious counts of the indictment without any assurance of sentence leniency, we are persuaded that, in deciding to plead, defendant hoped that the sentencing court would impose concurrent terms…