Judgments reversed, on the law, pleas vacated and case remitted to the County Court, Nassau County, for further proceedings consistent herewith.
Under the circumstances of the instant case, wherein the uncontradicted evidence indicated that defendant's plea of guilty to robbery in the first degree was motivated, at least in part, by a well-substantiated threat of death to his wife if he testified in his own behalf, it was an abuse of discretion for the pleading court...
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