People v. Pearl

—Yesawich Jr., J.

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of St. Lawrence County (Nicandri, J.), rendered March 30, 1998, which revoked defendant’s probation and imposed a term of imprisonment.

Defendant was convicted upon his plea of guilty of three *774counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree and was sentenced to three concurrent periods of five years’ probation. Thereafter, he pleaded guilty to violating the terms of his probation—he repeatedly failed to report to a treatment center counseling program—with the understanding that he would be sentenced to two…