PEOPLE v. DISKIN


217 A.D.2d 718 (1995)

628 N.Y.S.2d 1016

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Benji Diskin, Appellant

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

July 6, 1995


In full satisfaction of three separate indictments charging defendant with various drug-related crimes, defendant pleaded guilty to the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree. As part of the plea agreement, defendant was sentenced to a term of 15 years to life in prison. He raises a number of claims on appeal, the most prominent of which is that the plea allocution was insufficient because it failed to establish that defendant knowingly...

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