People v Reyes-Fuentes

Holding The court affirmed the judgments, holding that the defendant’s valid waiver of the right to appeal precluded review of sentence excessiveness and factual sufficiency challenges. However, the court reviewed the claim that factual insufficiency rendered the pleas involuntary, finding the pleas were voluntary and intelligent because the defendant admitted to each element of the charged crimes.

The court’s words

not necessary that a defendant provide a factual exposition for each element of the offenses to which he [or she] entered a plea of guilty

2026 NY Slip Op 06462, at the official text

It is enough that the allocution shows that the defendant understood the charges and made an intelligent decision to enter a plea

2026 NY Slip Op 06462, at the official text