People v. Safa

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Allen Alpert, J.), rendered November 14, 1991, convicting defendant, upon his guilty plea of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and of violation of probation, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 2Vi to 5 years and IV2 to 4A years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Contrary to defendant’s claim, "[i]t is not coercive for a court to inform a defendant as to the possible sentence available under the indictment” (People v Stephens, 188 AD2d 345, 345-346, lv denied 81 NY2d 893).

Defendant’s…