PEOPLE v. RIVERA


150 A.D.2d 812 (1989)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Alberto Rivera, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

May 30, 1989


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

At the sentencing proceeding, the defendant claimed, for the first time, that he had been "under the influence of drugs" and that he had therefore not understood the consequences of his plea. Neither the defendant nor his attorney offered the slightest bit of detail which might have lent credibility to his conclusory statement and the court properly drew upon its own recollection of the defendant's appearance and behavior at...

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