PEOPLE v. LEKOVIC (1999)

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.

The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Almir LEKOVIC, Defendant-Appellant.

Decided: October 21, 1999

ELLERIN, P.J., WALLACH, LERNER, RUBIN and BUCKLEY, JJ.

Yael V. Levy, for Respondent. Amy K. Schiava, for Defendant-Appellant.

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert Cohen, J.), rendered October 28, 1996, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of attempted murder in the second degree, rape in the first degree and robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him to three concurrent terms of 121/212 to 25 years, unanimously affirmed.

We find that nothing in defendant's plea allocution cast doubt on his guilt and that his post-plea statements did not require any sua sponte inquiry by the court (see, People v. Toxey, 86 N.Y.2d 725, 631 N.Y.S.2d 119, 655 N.E.2d 160; People v. Negron, 222 A.D.2d 327, 635 N.Y.S.2d 615, lv. denied 88 N.Y.2d 882, 645 N.Y.S.2d 457, 668 N.E.2d 428).

We perceive no abuse of sentencing discretion.

MEMORANDUM DECISION.

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