People v. Cruz

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (John N. Byrne, J.), rendered February 25, 2003, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in imposing the prison term provided for under the plea agreement, where defendant was returned to court involuntarily on a bench warrant *241after being extradited from Tennessee, three years after leaving the drug treatment program that he had been obligated…