People v. Pierre

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bruce Allen, J.), rendered December 4, 2008, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of nine years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s plea was not rendered involuntary by the fact that the court did not advise him that his conviction could be used to enhance his sentence in his then-pending federal prosecution, and the court properly denied defendant’s motion to withdraw his plea on that ground. The record establishes the…