Legal Opinion
People v. Tavarez
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 26, 1989PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Cunningham, J.), rendered September 23, 1985, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.
*794Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant’s contention that his guilty plea must be vacated because the factual recitation was legally insufficient to establish the elements of the crime to which he pleaded is without merit. Under the circumstances of this case, where there was a bargained-for guilty plea to a lesser crime, and the defendant was aware of the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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