People v. Rivera

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Maraño, J.), rendered May 10, 1985, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

At the sentencing proceeding, the defendant claimed, for the first time, that he had been "under the influence of drugs” and that he had therefore not understood the consequences of his plea. Neither the defendant nor his attorney offered the slightest bit of detail which might have lent credibility to his conclusory…