PEOPLE v. HOPETON


256 A.D.2d 81 (1998)

681 N.Y.S.2d 753

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. FRANCIS HOPETON, Appellant.

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

Decided December 8, 1998.


Defendant did not preserve his current claim that he was coerced by the court into entering the guilty plea, since his motion to withdraw the plea was made on other grounds (People v Cummings, 235 A.D.2d 276, lv denied 89 N.Y.2d 1091). In any event, the record indicates that defendant entered a knowing, intelligent and voluntary guilty plea, in exchange for a favorable sentence. Contrary to defendant's current claim of coercion...

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