People v. Rivera

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Richard Lee Price, J.), rendered October 8, 1987, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of from 15 years to life imprisonment, unanimously affirmed.

The record of the plea proceeding demonstrates that, rather than face trial and a possible sentence of 25 years to life imprisonment and in light of the People’s recommendation of a sentence of 20 years to life, defendant chose to plead guilty to avail himself of the court’s promise of the minimum possible sentence and that the plea was…