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People v. Bryant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jan 28, 1985
107 A.D.2d 817 (N.Y. App. Div. 1985)

Opinion

January 28, 1985

Appeal from the County Court, Nassau County (Collins, J.).


Judgment affirmed.

On this appeal defendant contends that his plea of guilty should be vacated because his admission of guilt indicated that he was intoxicated at the time of the commission of the crime and that, therefore, a defense of intoxication may have been available to him. Having failed to either move to withdraw the plea on this ground prior to the imposition of sentence or to move to vacate the judgment pursuant to CPL 440.10, defendant has not preserved for appellate review the issue of the plea allocution's sufficiency (see People v. Pellegrino, 60 N.Y.2d 636). Moreover, were we to review this issue in the interest of justice, vacatur would not be required because defendant's recital of the circumstances of the commission of the crime clearly spelled out the crime of manslaughter in the first degree (see People v. Serrano, 15 N.Y.2d 304), and the allocution satisfied the basic requirements of People v. Harris ( 61 N.Y.2d 9). Thompson, J.P., Brown, Niehoff and Lawrence, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

People v. Bryant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jan 28, 1985
107 A.D.2d 817 (N.Y. App. Div. 1985)
Case details for

People v. Bryant

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JAY C. BRYANT…

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

Date published: Jan 28, 1985

Citations

107 A.D.2d 817 (N.Y. App. Div. 1985)

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