ALBANY – Criminal court judges are not obligated to explain during plea bargain allocutions the "collateral" ramifications of violating the conditions of post-release supervisioneven if the defendant could be facing many more years in prisona divided Court of Appeals held yesterday.
In a 5-1 opinion, the court upheld the Appellate Division, Second Department, and said that while judges must advise defendants that they will be under post-release supervision once they are released, they need not explain the consequences, partially because those consequences are established by the Board of Parole on a case-by-case basis.
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