People v. Scott

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Weber, J.), rendered June 19, 2003, convicting him of attempted robbery in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant pleaded guilty in March 1992, and then absconded. After 11 years, the defendant was finally returned for sentencing. Despite the defendant’s having absconded, the County Court imposed the sentence that had been originally promised as an inducement to the defendant’s plea, and which, the parties acknowledge, was the minimum legal…