People v. Ruiz

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Farneti, J.), rendered October 16, 2001, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty (Sherman, J.), and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of 6 to 18 years’ imprisonment.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by reducing the sentence imposed thereon to an indeterminate term of 3 Vs to 10 years’ imprisonment; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

The transcript of the minutes of the proceedings at which the defendant entered his plea of guilty does not indicate that the…