People v. Edwards

from a *497judgment of the Supreme Court (Kavanagh, J.), rendered April 22,2005 in Ulster County, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crimes of murder in the second degree (three counts), robbery in the first degree (two counts) and burglary in the first degree (two counts).

Defendant, with assistance from two accomplices, broke into the victim’s home, robbed him and brutally beat and stabbed him to death. Thereafter, defendant pleaded guilty to a seven-count indictment charging him with murder in the second degree (three counts), robbery in the first degree (two counts) and…