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DEFENSE COUNSEL TOOK A POSITION ADVERSE TO HER CLIENT’S RE THE CLIENT’S PRO SE MOTION TO WITHDRAW HIS PLEA, MATTER REMITTED FOR FURTHER PROCEEDINGS ON THE MOTION WITH NEW COUNSEL (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department determined defense counsel took a position adverse to her client’s on the client’s pro se written motion to withdraw his plea. Therefore the matter was remitted for further proceedings on the motion with new counsel:

Before sentencing, defendant made a written pro se motion to withdraw his guilty plea, asserting that his plea was involuntary because he “was not fully aware of the circumstances involved,” and that he had a meritorious defense. In a companion motion, he cited specific inconsistencies in the victim’s statements. Defendant did not claim there were any deficiencies in defense counsel’s performance. However, when asked by the court whether she had anything to say “on behalf of the motion,” counsel replied, “I don’t think that there . . . is a basis for it,” and that defendant had not wanted to proceed to trial.

This constituted taking a position adverse to defendant’s, and thus warranted assignment of new counsel… . To the extent that, after the court denied the motion, counsel made additional comments that appeared to bear on her advice to defendant about taking the plea, these were unnecessary because, in his plea withdrawal motion, defendant never complained about his attorney’s conduct. Thus, counsel’s comments were adverse to her client’s position, and “went beyond a mere explanation of h[er] performance” … . People v Colson, 2018 NY Slip Op 02885, First Dept 4-26-18

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