People v. Tyrell

OPINION OF THE COURT

Graffeo, J.

In Boykin v Alabama (395 US 238 [1969]), the United States Supreme Court held that a defendant who enters a guilty plea must voluntarily and intelligently waive several federal constitutional rights, namely, the right to a trial by jury, the right to confront one’s accusers and the privilege against self-incrimination. Because the records in the cases before us are silent as to defendant’s waiver of these fundamental rights, the pleas must be vacated.

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In the first of two appeals involving defendant Cavell Craig Tyrell (County index No. 570026/10), a police…