People v Strong
2011 NY Slip Op 00403 [80 AD3d 717]
January 18, 2011
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, March 9, 2011


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

[*1]Marianne Karas, Armonk, N.Y., for appellant.

Kathleen M. Rice, District Attorney, Mineola, N.Y. (Ilisa T. Fleischer of counsel; Victoria Rosneron the brief), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Peck, J.),rendered March 14, 2008, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree and criminal possession ofa weapon in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant's contention that his plea of guilty was not voluntary because it was coerced isunpreserved for appellate review, since he did not move to withdraw his plea on that ground or raisethis issue before the Supreme Court (see CPL 470.05 [2]; People v Johnson, 70 AD3d 721 [2010]; People v Antoine, 59 AD3d 560[2009]; People v Perez, 51 AD3d1043 [2008]). In any event, the Supreme Court's remarks during the plea proceedings regardingthe defendant's possible sentence exposure were he to proceed to trial were informative, not coercive(see People v Bravo, 72 AD3d697, 698 [2010]; People vMiranda, 67 AD3d 709, 710 [2009]; People v Pagan, 297 AD2d 582 [2002];People v Samuel, 208 AD2d 776 [1994]). Rivera, J.P., Florio, Dickerson, Hall and Roman,JJ., concur.


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