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People v. White

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.
Oct 12, 2017
154 A.D.3d 495 (N.Y. App. Div. 2017)

Opinion

10-12-2017

The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Giovanni WHITE, Defendant–Appellant.

Rosemary Herbert, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York (Matthew A. Wasserman of counsel), for appellant. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Dana Poole of counsel), for respondent.


Rosemary Herbert, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York (Matthew A. Wasserman of counsel), for appellant.Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Dana Poole of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Larry R.C. Stephen, J. at suppression hearing; Daniel P. FitzGerald, J. at plea and sentencing), rendered November 21, 2014, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of burglary in the third degree and possession of burglar's tools, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 2 ½ to 5 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant asserts that his plea should be vacated because the attorney who represented him at the suppression hearing failed to effectuate defendant's desire to testify at that proceeding. On this appeal, we need not decide whether defendant had a right to testify at a suppression hearing because defendant failed to preserve the issue and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. In any event, we find that the record as a whole demonstrates that defendant's plea was knowing, intelligent, and voluntary.

TOM, J.P., RENWICK, ANDRIAS, SINGH, MOULTON, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

People v. White

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.
Oct 12, 2017
154 A.D.3d 495 (N.Y. App. Div. 2017)
Case details for

People v. White

Case Details

Full title:The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Giovanni WHITE…

Court:Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.

Date published: Oct 12, 2017

Citations

154 A.D.3d 495 (N.Y. App. Div. 2017)
154 A.D.3d 495
2017 N.Y. Slip Op. 7181