People v. Gonzalez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley R. Levittan, J.), rendered June 20, 1986, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree and sentencing him to a term of from 5¾ years’ to life imprisonment, unanimously affirmed.

By failing to seek to withdraw his plea at the sentencing proceeding, when both sides fully argued their respective disagreements over the minimum term of the sentence to be imposed, defendant has not preserved the issue for our review (see, People v Lopez, 71 NY2d 662, 667-668). While we decline to…