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People v. Thompson

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department
May 6, 1993
193 A.D.2d 841 (N.Y. App. Div. 1993)

Opinion

May 6, 1993

Appeal from the County Court of Columbia County (Leaman, J.).


Defendant waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted burglary in the second degree, criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree, criminal trespass in the third degree and criminal mischief in the fourth degree. The People agreed not to recommend a specific sentence contingent upon defendant's successful completion of treatment at a drug rehabilitation center prior to sentencing. Sentencing was then adjourned for six months. Defendant's sentencing was again adjourned for a calculation of the restitution owed. At that adjournment, County Court indicated that upon defendant's successful completion of her treatment program she would be sentenced to time served and restitution as well as a period of probation. Finally, at sentencing defendant admitted that she had been unable to successfully complete her treatment program. County Court then sentenced her as follows: concurrent prison sentences of 1 1/3 to 4 years for each conviction of attempted burglary in the second degree; 1 to 6 years for the conviction of possession of a forged instrument in the second degree, to run consecutively to the sentences for attempted burglary in the second degree; and three months for the other two convictions, to run concurrently to each other and the other sentences. Defendant appeals, contending that both the People and County Court violated the terms of the plea agreement.

Initially, we find that by failing to object at sentencing or to move to vacate her plea, defendant did not preserve this issue for appellate review (see, People v Ellis, 162 A.D.2d 701, lv denied 76 N.Y.2d 892; People v Moore, 155 A.D.2d 696). In any event, defendant admittedly failed to comply with an explicit condition of her plea agreement. County Court was therefore free to impose whatever sentence it felt appropriate without offering defendant a chance to withdraw her guilty plea (see, People v McDaniels, 111 A.D.2d 876; see also, People v Ellis, supra; People v Cuadrado, 161 A.D.2d 232, lv denied 76 N.Y.2d 855). Similarly, the People were not required to fulfill their agreement not to recommend a sentence given defendant's failure to meet an express condition of the plea agreement (see, People v Campbell, 175 A.D.2d 612, lv denied 78 N.Y.2d 1074).

Weiss, P.J., Levine, Crew III, Casey and Harvey, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.


Summaries of

People v. Thompson

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department
May 6, 1993
193 A.D.2d 841 (N.Y. App. Div. 1993)
Case details for

People v. Thompson

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. CHRISTINE M. THOMPSON…

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

Date published: May 6, 1993

Citations

193 A.D.2d 841 (N.Y. App. Div. 1993)
597 N.Y.S.2d 523

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