Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Rickey Womble, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1972-11-28
Citations: 40 A.D.2d 816
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Rickey Womble, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 40
Pages: 816–816

Head Matter:
(Republished)
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Rickey Womble, Appellant.

Opinion:
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County, rendered December 17,1970, resentencing defendant-appellant as a second felony offender, nunc pro tunc as of February 15, 1968, unanimously reversed, on the law, the sentence vacated, and the matter remanded to Supreme Court, New York County, for resentence anew and such further proceedings , as shall then be appropriate as set forth in this memorandum. On resentence, defendant advised the court of his claim that his predicate 1965 felony conviction had been unconstitutionally suffered in that he then pleaded guilty to attempted robbery, third degree, in the belief that this was a misdemeanor plea, he not having been then advised that it was to a felony he was pleading. This claim should then and there have been considered by the resentencing court (see former Code Grim. Pro., § 470-a, subd. 7, adapted by 1967 amendment from section 1943 of former Penal Law; People v. McRae, 32 A D 2d 772); instead, the matter was referred to the Justice who had taken the 1965 plea. Commendably, the District Attorney has consented to vacatur of resentence and remand to permit the claim to be considered by the court as it should have been on the prior resentence. But this disposition entitles defendant to no more than consideration of his claim, defendant's bare allegation does not automatically entitle him to a hearing unless, by appropriate allegations in papers to be submitted on the resentenee for which we remand, he first establishes a factual basis for such a hearing. (See People v. Robinson, 38 A D 2d 821.) Concur — Markewich, J. P., Steuer, Tilzer and Capozzoli, JJ. [40 A D 2d 773.]