Case ID: ad2d_272/html/0958-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Demetrius J., Appellant.
    [708 NYS2d 212]
   —Adjudication unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant contends that County Court erroneously informed him that he was eligible for the shock incarceration program (see, Correction Law art 26-A) and thus that his guilty plea was not knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently entered. We disagree. Although defendant pleaded guilty to a violent felony offense, he was adjudicated a youthful offender. Because “[a] youthful offender adjudication is not a judgment of conviction for a crime or any other offense” (CPL 720.35 [1]), defendant was an “eligible inmate” as that term is defined in Correction Law § 865 (1). (Appeal from Adjudication of Jefferson County Court, Clary, J. — Youthful Offender.) Present — Wisner, J. P., Hurlbutt, Balio and Lawton, JJ.