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People v. Weekes

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Dec 31, 2001
289 A.D.2d 599 (N.Y. App. Div. 2001)

Opinion

2001-11051, 2001-02483

Submitted December 12, 2001.

December 31, 2001.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Orange County (Berry, J.), rendered February 27, 2001, convicting him of burglary in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Michael H. Sussman, Goshen, N.Y. (Stephen Bergstein of counsel), for appellant.

Francis D. Phillips II, District Attorney, Goshen, N Y (Andrew R. Kass of counsel), for respondent.

Before: FRED T. SANTUCCI, J.P., MYRIAM J. ALTMAN, ANITA R. FLORIO, HOWARD MILLER, BARRY A. COZIER, JJ.


DECISION ORDER

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.

The decision to permit the withdrawal of a plea of guilty is directed to the sound discretion of the court (see, CPL 220.60; People v. Frederick, 45 N.Y.2d 520). The County Court properly exercised its discretion in denying the defendant's motion to withdraw his plea in this case. The minutes of the plea proceeding show that the defendant entered a knowing and voluntary plea and there is nothing in the record to suggest that the plea was improvident or baseless (see, People v. Polite, 259 A.D.2d 566).

The defendant's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is either based on matters dehors the record (see, People v. Weathers, 287 A.D.2d 753 [2d Dept., Oct. 29, 2001]) or belied by his acknowledgement at the plea proceeding that he was satisfied with the representation of his current attorney (see, People v. Charles, 256 A.D.2d 472).

SANTUCCI, J.P., ALTMAN, FLORIO, H. MILLER and COZIER, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

People v. Weekes

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Dec 31, 2001
289 A.D.2d 599 (N.Y. App. Div. 2001)
Case details for

People v. Weekes

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE, ETC., Respondent, v. MARK C. WEEKES, Appellant

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

Date published: Dec 31, 2001

Citations

289 A.D.2d 599 (N.Y. App. Div. 2001)
735 N.Y.S.2d 815

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