People v. Jenkins

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Stephen G. Crane, J.), rendered October 31, 1989, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 15 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

In view of defendant’s recantation of his plea allocution and his claims of innocence and coercion made to the Probation Department interviewer and to the trial court, as well as the People’s consent and the trial court’s observation that in the circumstances it could not in good conscience abide by the terms of the…