People v. Rodriguez

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Gerald Sheindlin, J.), rendered August 25, 1998, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 5 years, unanimously modified, on the law, the facts and in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence imposed to a term of 3 years, and otherwise affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in denying, after sufficient inquiry under the circumstances, defendant’s motion to withdraw his plea of guilty. The record…