People v. Hatfield
This text of 36 A.D.3d 629 (People v. Hatfield) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Molea, J.), rendered March 29, 2005, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence. .
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The record demonstrates that the defendant knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently pleaded guilty (see People v Harris, 61 NY2d 9 [1983]). Furthermore, the County Court conducted an adequate inquiry into the defendant’s vague and unsubstantiated assertions of coercion, which were belied by the record (see People v Frederick, 45 NY2d 520, 524-525 [1978]; People v Sloane, 13 AD3d 400 [2004]; People v Ellison, 12 AD3d 458 [2004]; People v Abney, 10 AD3d 617 [2004]). Miller, J.P., Spolzino, Krausman, Fisher and Dillon, JJ., concur.
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