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People v. Charles

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Dec 16, 1998
256 A.D.2d 472 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)

Opinion

December 16, 1998

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


Ordered that the judgment under Indictment No. 3775/97 is affirmed; and it is further,

Ordered that the judgment under Indictment No. 12213/96 is modified, on the law, by reducing the sentence imposed thereon from an indeterminate term of 4 to 8 years imprisonment to an indeterminate term of 2 2/3 to 8 years imprisonment; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the defendant's pro se motion to vacate his pleas of guilty ( see, CPL 220.60; People v. Ellerbe, 237 A.D.2d 299). The defendant's protestations of innocence and of coercion are belied by the record ( see, People v. Brown, 251 A.D.2d 677; People v. Sider, 232 A.D.2d 666; People v. Evans, 204 A.D.2d 346). The defendant's claim that he was coerced by his attorney's warning regarding the strength of the prosecution's case is without merit ( see, People v. Samuel, 208 A.D.2d 776; People v. Anthony, 188 A.D.2d 477).

The defendant committed the crime of sodomy in the first degree under Indictment No. 12213/96 in 1993. Accordingly, as the People concede, the Supreme Court erred in imposing a minimum term of imprisonment which was one-half of the maximum term of that count ( see, Penal Law § 70.02 [former (4)]). The court should have imposed a minimum term of imprisonment of one-third of the maximum term, to run concurrently with the other sentence of an indeterminate term of 4 to 8 years imprisonment.

The defendant's remaining contention is without merit.

Rosenblatt, J. P., O'Brien, Sullivan, Krausman and Florio, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

People v. Charles

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Dec 16, 1998
256 A.D.2d 472 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)
Case details for

People v. Charles

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. GERALD CHARLES…

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

Date published: Dec 16, 1998

Citations

256 A.D.2d 472 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)
683 N.Y.S.2d 438

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