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People v. Hill

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department
Oct 2, 1998
254 A.D.2d 726 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)

Opinion

October 2, 1998

Appeal from the Oneida County Court, Merrell, J. — Assault, 2nd Degree.

Present — Pine, J. P., Hayes, Wisner, Balio and Boehm, JJ.


Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant pleaded guilty to assault in the second degree (Penal Law § 120.05) and robbery in the first degree (Penal Law § 160.15) in full satisfaction of charges set forth in two separate indictments. By failing to move to withdraw the guilty plea to assault in the second degree or to vacate that judgment of conviction, defendant failed to preserve for our review his challenge to the factual sufficiency of his plea allocution on the assault charge ( see, CPL 470.05; People v. Lopez, 71 N.Y.2d 662, 665; People v. Pellegrino, 60 N.Y.2d 636). We reject the contention of defendant that this is one of those "rare case" exceptions to the preservation rule ( People v. Lopez, supra, at 666). Thus, the contention that defendant's guilty plea with respect to the robbery charge should be vacated because it was conditioned upon pleading guilty to the assault charge is moot.

Defendant is not entitled to specific enforcement of the People's post-plea "offer" of concurrent terms of incarceration of 2 to 6 and 3 to 9 years. The record does not indicate that County Court approved that "offer" and, in any event, defendant did not accept that "offer" ( see, People v. Simmons, 190 A.D.2d 911; cf., People v. Huertas, 203 A.D.2d 952, affd 85 N.Y.2d 898). The court initially agreed that, if defendant appeared on the scheduled date of sentencing, it would sentence him to concurrent terms of incarceration of 2 to 6 years. Defendant failed to appear for sentencing because he had been convicted of a crime in Florida. As a result, the court sentenced defendant to terms of incarceration of 2 to 6 and 4 to 12 years and directed that the sentences run consecutively. In light of the circumstances and defendant's lengthy criminal history, we conclude that the sentence is not unduly harsh or severe.


Summaries of

People v. Hill

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department
Oct 2, 1998
254 A.D.2d 726 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)
Case details for

People v. Hill

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. MATTHEW HILL…

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

Date published: Oct 2, 1998

Citations

254 A.D.2d 726 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)
678 N.Y.S.2d 564

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