People v. Walworth
Opinion of the Court
Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Broome County (Monserrate, J.), rendered April 10, 1987, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of sodomy in the first degree.
Moreover, defendant has made no showing, nor does the record reflect, that County Court relied on any prejudicial information to impose sentence (see, People v Redman, 148 AD2d 966, 967, lv denied 74 NY2d 745). The report revealed defendant’s prior arrest and conviction in Pennsylvania for a sexual misdemeanor just two weeks before the circumstances leading to the conviction underlying this appeal, and defendant received the agreed-upon sentence (see, People v Dowdell, supra). Had defendant wished—although interestingly, even on appeal defense counsel offers no more than unbuttressed suggestions that "the information about [defendant’s] family, social, and personal history might have led the judge to conclude that a lesser sentence was appropriate”—defendant had ample opportunity to inform the court of any potential mitigating factors (see, CPL 380.50, 390.40; see generally, People v Perry, 36 NY2d 114, 119). Furthermore, the sentence imposed is not itself improper, excessive or harsh.
Judgment affirmed. Mahoney, P. J., Casey, Mikoll and Yesawich, Jr., JJ., concur; Levine, J. not taking part.
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