People v. Bates

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Broome County (Smith, J.), rendered August 7, 2002, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of attempted robbery in the second degree.

Defendant waived indictment and agreed to be prosecuted by a superior court information charging him with robbery in the *964second degree after he and an unapprehended accomplice accosted a young man at a home in Broome County and took $350. In October 2001, he pleaded guilty to attempted robbery in the second degree in full satisfaction of the charge and, in exchange, was to be sentenced to three…