People v. Castro

. Memorandum. Order of the Appellate Division affirmed.

The so-called colloquy by the trial court with defendant upon taking his plea of guilty during the trial justified the plea on any possible theory. The reference to defendant not realizing that he had used a great degree of force is ambiguous whether it referred to the fatal beating or prior beatings. The reference to defendant’s asserted lack of intent evidently referred to a lack of intent to kill, not to the lack of intent to give a merciless beating to his infant stepdaughter, the last of several physical abuses of the child. Hence,…