Case ID: ad2d_256/html/1194-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Antonio McKnight, Appellant.
    [683 NYS2d 461]
   —Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant contends that County Court erred in failing to conduct a thorough inquiry into his justification defense before accepting his plea of guilty to assault in the second degree (Penal Law § 120.05 [2]). The recitation of the facts underlying the crime, however, did not cast significant doubt upon defendant’s guilt (see, People v Lopez, 71 NY2d 662, 666). The court had no “duty to inquire further to ensure that defendant’s guilty plea is knowing and

voluntary” (People v Lopez, supra, at 666). (Appeal from Judgment of Monroe County Court, Egan, J. — Assault, 2nd Degree.) Present — Denman, P. J., Hayes, Pigott, Jr., Callahan and Fallon, JJ.