In 1999, petitioner was convicted on his plea of guilty of the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree and was sentenced to a prison term of 4½ years to life. He subsequently commenced this proceeding for a writ of habeas corpus contending, inter alia, that his guilty plea should not have been accepted because he was charged in the indictment with the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree...
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