PEOPLE v. SOTO (2025)

Supreme Court, Appellate Term, New York,

The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. William SOTO, Defendant-Appellant.

570042 /19

Decided: April 28, 2025

PRESENT: Hagler, P.J., Brigantti, Tisch, JJ.

Judgments of conviction (Phaedra F. Perry, J., at pleas; Jeffrey M. Zimmerman, J., at plea and sentencing), rendered December 10, 2018, affirmed.

Even accepting defendant's contention that the April 12, 2018 and December 10, 2018 guilty pleas were jurisdictionally defective, he would be entitled to have the pleas vacated. However, he does not request that relief, but instead seeks dismissal of the accusatory instruments or a reduction of the misdemeanor convictions under Docket Nos. 2017BX020172 and 2018BX039414 to violations, and he expressly asks this Court to affirm the judgments if it does not grant one of those remedies. Because, under all the circumstances, we do not find either remedy to be appropriate, we affirm (see People v Boyton, 217 AD3d 583 [2023], lv denied 40 NY3d 950 [2023]; People v Teron, 139 AD3d 450 [2016]).

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE COURT.

Per Curiam.

All concur.

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