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The case concerns the admissibility of a defendant's prior guilty plea allocution in a subsequent trial without a CPL 710.30 notice. The defendant was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle on multiple occasions. The People intended to use the allocution from an earlier guilty plea (where the defendant admitted knowing his license was suspended) to prove knowledge in the current consolidated cases. Defense counsel objected, citing lack of CPL 710.30 notice and the need for a Huntley hearing to determine voluntariness. The court denied the defendant's motion, ruling that CPL 710.30 notice is not required for presumptively voluntary, judicially supervised guilty pleas made by a represented defendant, as such pleas are not involuntarily made within the meaning of the statute.
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The case concerns the admissibility of a defendant's prior guilty plea allocution in a subsequent trial without a CPL 710.30 notice. The defendant was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle on multiple occasions. The People intended to use the allocution from an earlier guilty plea (where the defendant admitted knowing his license was suspended) to prove knowledge in the current consolidated cases. Defense counsel objected, citing lack of CPL 710.30 notice and the need for a Huntley hearing to determine voluntariness. The court denied the defendant's motion, ruling that CPL 710.30 notice is not required for presumptively voluntary, judicially supervised guilty pleas made by a represented defendant, as such pleas are not "involuntarily made" within the meaning of the statute.
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