New York Court of Appeals March 29, 2007 (People v. Rowland)

lead-opinion

OPINION OF THE COURT

Smith, J.

We held in People v Pichardo (1 NY3d 126 [2003]) that a defendant was entitled to withdraw his guilty plea where the plea had been induced by a promise that the defendant’s prison sentence would be concurrent with his sentence on a previous conviction and where, because the previous conviction was overturned, the promise could not be kept.