PEOPLE v. SANTIAGO


288 A.D.2d 404 (2001)

734 N.Y.S.2d 87

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JOSE SANTIAGO, Appellant.

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

Decided November 19, 2001.


Ordered that the judgments are reversed, on the law, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for further proceedings in accordance herewith.

The transcript of the defendant's plea proceeding does not indicate that he was told, and it cannot be implied therefrom that he understood, that if he contacted the complainant, the Supreme Court could impose harsher sentences than those promised. Accordingly, although the defendant contacted the complainant...

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