The People v. Joseph Conceicao / The People v. Federico Perez / The People v. Javier Sanchez

OPINION OF THE COURT

Pigott, J.

The primary issue in these appeals is whether defendants entered knowing, intelligent and voluntary guilty pleas when the trial courts failed to mention the constitutional rights defendants were waiving — the right to a trial by jury, the right to confront one’s accusers and the privilege against self-incrimination (see Boykin v Alabama, 395 US 238, 243 [1969]). We hold that the failure to recite the Boykin rights does not automatically invalidate an otherwise voluntary and intelligent plea. Where the record as a whole affirmatively shows that the defendant…