Case ID: ad3d_82/html/0407-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Kennedy Howe, Appellant.
    [917 NYS2d 855]
   The record establishes that defendant’s plea was knowing, intelligent and voluntary, and nothing in the plea allocution minutes casts doubt on his guilt (see People v Toxey, 86 NY2d 725 [1995]; People v Lopez, 71 NY2d 662 [1988]). Defendant explicitly admitted his guilt of all requisite elements including intent.

At sentencing, defendant made a statement about his psychiatric history that appeared to be a request for leniency or for better psychiatric treatment in prison. However, he did not move to withdraw his plea. In the absence of such a motion, there was nothing to require a sua sponte inquiry by the court into the plea’s voluntariness (see e.g. People v Riley, 264 AD2d 689 [1999], lv denied 94 NY2d 906 [2000]). Furthermore, there is nothing to suggest that defendant was mentally incompetent at the time of his plea or had a viable psychiatric defense to the charges. Concur — Gonzalez, EJ., Tom, Andrias, Renwick and Abdus-Salaam, JJ.