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People v. Harris

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Feb 21, 1989
147 A.D.2d 658 (N.Y. App. Div. 1989)

Opinion

February 21, 1989

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lane, J.).


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Since the defendant failed to raise the voluntariness of his plea and the sufficiency of the factual allocution in the court of first instance, those issues have not been preserved for appellate review (see, People v Banks, 117 A.D.2d 611). In any event, there is nothing to indicate that the defendant's plea, during the course of which he admitted all of the elements of the crime to which he pleaded guilty, was not knowingly and voluntarily made.

The defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim is based upon matters dehors the record and thus should properly have been raised by way of motion pursuant to CPL article 440.

Given that the defendant bargained for the sentence he received, he has no basis to complain that it was excessive (see, People v Kazepis, 101 A.D.2d 816). Mangano, J.P., Brown, Lawrence, Kooper and Harwood, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

People v. Harris

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Feb 21, 1989
147 A.D.2d 658 (N.Y. App. Div. 1989)
Case details for

People v. Harris

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. BERTRAM HARRIS…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Feb 21, 1989

Citations

147 A.D.2d 658 (N.Y. App. Div. 1989)
538 N.Y.S.2d 59