People v. Lang

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Che-mung County, rendered January 16, 1976, convicting defendant, upon a plea of guilty, of the crime of escape in the first degree. The defendant was sentenced to a term of not less than two nor more than four years to run consecutively to the sentence he was serving at the time of his escape. He now asks that he be permitted to withdraw his plea of guilty, asserting that *791he misunderstood the significance of a consecutive sentence as opposed to a concurrent sentence; that relying entirely on his lawyer’s advice, it was his understanding that any…