People v Spruell
2009 NY Slip Op 02006 [60 AD3d 876]
March 17, 2009
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, May 6, 2009


The People of the State of New York,Respondent,
v
Gregory Spruell, Appellant.

[*1]Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Warren S. Landau of counsel), for appellant.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Linda Breen ofcounsel; Robert Ho on the brief), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (DiMango,J.), rendered January 4, 2007, convicting him of robbery in the third degree, upon his plea ofguilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

The sentencing court conducted a sufficient inquiry to determine that the defendant violateda condition of the plea agreement which the court had imposed as a prerequisite to youthfuloffender status (see People v Valencia,3 NY3d 714 [2004]; People vCovington, 28 AD3d 575 [2006]), and the court did not otherwise improvidentlyexercise its discretion in denying such status (see People v Stanley, 38 AD3d 923 [2007]; People v Taylor,302 AD2d 480 [2003]). Prudenti, P.J., Ritter, Santucci and Covello, JJ., concur.


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