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DEFENDANT DID NOT DEMONSTRATE HE DID NOT ENTER HIS GUILTY PLEA VOLUNTARILY, KNOWINGLY AND INTELLIGENTLY; HIS MOTION TO WITHDRAW HIS PLEA WAS PROPERLY DENIED; STRONG DISSENT ARGUED DEFENDANT DEMONSTRATED AN INADQUATE OPPORTUNITY TO CONSULT WITH DEFENSE COUNSEL (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, over an extensive dissent, determined defendant entered his guilty plea voluntarily, knowingly and intelligently. Therefore, defendant’s motion to withdraw his plea was properly denied. The dissent argued defendant demonstrated he did not have an adequate opportunity to consult with defense counsel:

The defendant … contended in his motion that he had inadequate opportunity to speak with his counsel regarding the case and any defenses. However, … when the plea court endeavored to inquire further as to an equivocal statement by the defendant that he was able to discuss “some” of the facts of the case with his counsel, the defendant terminated that inquiry, and confirmed that he had sufficient time to speak with his attorney. The defendant also does not dispute the People’s assertion that, while the defendant was out on bail, he and defense counsel met with the prosecutor to view surveillance video allegedly depicting the explosives and reckless endangerment crimes.  * * *

… [T]he record here demonstrates that the defendant was feeling pressure to decide whether to plead guilty and be remanded or face greater charges if the People presented the matter to the grand jury. Indeed, the defendant’s precise words were: “I am forced to plead because they don’t—they will put me in the Grand Jury.” However, as this Court has observed: “When offered benefits for pleading guilty and confronted with the risk of more severe punishment if a plea offer is refused, a defendant will certainly feel pressure to plead guilty. But such pressure does not render a guilty plea involuntary because ‘the imposition of these difficult choices [is] an inevitable—and permissible—attribute of any legitimate system which tolerates and encourages the negotiation of pleas'” … . People v Hollman, 2021 NY Slip Op 04617, Second Dept 8-4-21

 

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