| People v Lucas |
| 2007 NY Slip Op 06902 [43 AD3d 1084] |
| September 18, 2007 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v DelonLucas, Appellant. |
—[*1] Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Keith Dolan ofcounsel), for respondent.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lott, J.),rendered April 19, 2005, convicting him of murder in the first degree and murder in the seconddegree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
During the plea allocution the defendant stated that he, together with his codefendant,abducted the victim, and physically forced him to remain in the defendant's apartment by tyingthe victim up with cord, taping his face, keeping him in a closet, and beating him. The defendantalso stated that he and the codefendant intentionally killed the victim by stabbing and beatinghim. Contrary to the defendant's claim, the plea allocution does not negate an essential element ofthe crime of intentional felony murder (see People v Cahill, 2 NY3d 14 [2003]). Prudenti, P.J., Mastro,Angiolillo and Dickerson, JJ., concur.