| People v Hatfield |
| 2007 NY Slip Op 00154 [36 AD3d 629] |
| January 9, 2007 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Ronald Hatfield, Jr., Appellant. |
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Janet DiFiore, District Attorney, White Plains, N.Y. (David C. Pilato, Lois C. Valerio, and Anthony J. Servino of counsel), for respondent.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Molea, J.), rendered March 29, 2005, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The record demonstrates that the defendant knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently pleaded guilty (see People v Harris, 61 NY2d 9 [1983]). Furthermore, the County Court conducted an adequate inquiry into the defendant's vague and unsubstantiated assertions of coercion, which were belied by the record (see People v Frederick, 45 NY2d 520, 524-525 [1978]; People v Sloane, 13 AD3d 400 [2004]; People v Ellison, 12 AD3d 458 [2004]; People v Abney, 10 AD3d 617 [2004]). Miller, J.P., Spolzino, Krausman, Fisher and Dillon, JJ., concur.