People v. Linares

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Colangelo, J.), rendered January 20, 2011, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the County Court improperly delegated its authority to the prosecutor to conduct the plea proceeding, during which the prosecutor allegedly misinformed him of the maximum sentence he faced for a conviction of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree,…