Legal Opinion

People v. Waters

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided July 20, 1998PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (LaCava, J.), rendered June 17, 1997, convicting him of burglary in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The court properly denied, without a hearing, the defendant’s motion to withdraw his plea of guilty because the record of the plea proceedings, in which the defendant expressly stated under oath that he was not coerced or threatened into pleading guilty, belied his claim of coercion (see, People v Murray, 245 AD2d 531; People v Breeden, 221…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. People v. RichardsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995
  2. People v. MurrayAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997
  3. People v. BreedenAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. People v. DunbarAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1999

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