People v Whitty
2016 NY Slip Op 04246 [140 AD3d 802]
June 1, 2016
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, August 3, 2016


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 The People of the State of New York,Respondent,
v
Denard E. Whitty, Appellant.

Steven A. Feldman, Uniondale, NY, for appellant.

Thomas J. Spota, District Attorney, Riverhead, NY (Alfred J. Croce of counsel), forrespondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County(Toomey, J.), rendered March 6, 2015, convicting him of attempted burglary in thesecond degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The sentence and commitment complies with CPL 380.65 (see People v Jackson, 136AD3d 1056, 1057 [2016]; People v Ellis, 123 AD3d 1054, 1054 [2014]; see generally People v Lynch,121 AD3d 717, 719 [2014]). Moreover, the record does not support the defendant'scontention that the County Court induced him to plead guilty through a promise it had nopower to fulfill (cf. People vBallato, 128 AD3d 846, 846-847 [2015]).

The defendant's assertion at sentencing that he was not guilty contradicted hisexpress sworn admissions at the plea proceeding and did not warrant vacatur of the pleaor a hearing (see CPL 220.60 [3]; People v Upson, 134 AD3d 1058, 1058-1059 [2015]).Balkin, J.P., Hall, Miller and LaSalle, JJ., concur.


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