PEOPLE v. MEDINA


287 A.D.2d 251 (2001)

730 N.Y.S.2d 710

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. ANGEL MEDINA, Appellant.

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

Decided October 2, 2001.


Defendant received meaningful representation (see, People v Benevento, 91 N.Y.2d 708, 713-714). Defendant claims that rather than going to trial he would have pleaded guilty had he been offered a sentence of eight years, and that he was denied effective assistance because his counsel was under the mistaken impression (shared by the court and prosecutor) that the minimum sentence available to a second felony offender for first-degree...

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