The People v. Baasil Reynolds

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Defendant was charged by indictment with criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (Penal Law § 265.02 [1]), and menacing in the second and third degrees (Penal Law §§ 120.14 [1]; 120.15). After having been incarcerated for approximately six months during the pendency of his case, defendant accepted a plea agreement whereby he would plead guilty to criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, a felony, and his sentencing would be delayed to give him a chance to withdraw his plea and replead…