Judges: Curran, Dejoseph, Scudder, Smith, Whalen
Filed Date: 2/3/2017
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 11/1/2024
Appeal from a judgment (denominated order) of the Supreme Court, Cayuga County (Thomas G. Leone, A.J.), entered August 21, 2015 in a habeas corpus proceeding. The judgment denied and dismissed the petition.
It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.
Memorandum: Petitioner appeals from a judgment dismissing his petition seeking a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that his guilty plea was coerced. Supreme Court properly dismissed the petition inasmuch as petitioner’s contention concerning the voluntariness of his plea “was or could have been raised on direct appeal from the judgment of conviction or in a motion pursuant to CPL article 440” (People ex rel. St.