People v. John W.

—Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Schenectady County (Scarano, Jr., J.), rendered February 22, 1995, which sentenced defendant upon his adjudication as a youthful offender.

Defendant and two codefendants were charged with vandalizing numerous headstones in a Schenectady County cemetery. In satisfaction of the charges, defendant pleaded guilty to criminal mischief in the second degree. At sentencing, County Court replaced defendant’s guilty plea with a youthful offender adjudication and sentenced him to l1/s to 4 years in a State correctional facility. Defendant argues that the…