Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1997

People v. Cowles

People v. Cowles
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided April 17, 1997
238 A.D.2d 210; 656 N.Y.S.2d 859; 1997 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 3889
People v. Cowles

Opinion of the Court

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Gerald Sheindlin, J.), rendered August 17, 1993, convicting defendant, upon his guilty pleas, of burglary in the second degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of to 9 years and IV2 to 3 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The available record establishes that, contrary to defendant’s present contention, he received effective assistance of counsel with respect to his guilty plea under the indictment charging criminal possession of stolen property (see, People v Ford, 86 NY2d 397, 404). We perceive no abuse of sentencing discretion. Concur—Sullivan, J. P., Nardelli, Williams and Tom, JJ.

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