People v Lizardi

People v Lizardi 2010 NY Slip Op 01688 [71 AD3d 406] March 2, 2010 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, April 28, 2010

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Javier Lizardi, Appellant.

—[*1] Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Mark W. Zeno of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Daniel K. Shin of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles H. Solomon, J.), rendered December 12, 2008, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 20 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

After sufficient inquiry, the court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea (see People v Frederick, 45 NY2d 520 [1978]). The record supports the court's detailed findings of fact, in which it rejected each of defendant's challenges to his plea. Under the circumstances, it was unnecessary to engage in further fact-finding regarding counsel's pre-plea advice to defendant about the defenses of justification and intoxication. Concur—Gonzalez, P.J., Saxe, McGuire, Acosta and Abdus-Salaam, JJ.