New York Laws
Article 220 - The Plea
220.30 - Plea; Plea of Guilty to Part of Indictment; Plea Covering Other Indictments.

(ii) If the other indictment or indictments are pending in a different
court or courts, they shall not be disposed of under this subdivision
unless the other courts and the appropriate prosecutors also transmit
their written permission and consent as provided in subdivision four of
section 220.50 of this article; in such a case the court in which the
plea is entered shall so notify the other courts which, upon such
notice, shall dismiss the appropriate indictments pending therein.
(b) (i) A plea of guilty, whether to the entire indictment or to part
of the indictment for any crime other than a class A felony, may not be
accepted on the condition that it constitutes a complete disposition of
one or more other indictments against the defendant wherein is charged a
class A-I felony as defined in article two hundred twenty of the penal
law or the attempt to commit any such class A-I felony, except that an
eligible youth, as defined in subdivision two of section 720.10, may
plea to a class B felony, upon consent of the district attorney, for
purposes of adjudication as a youthful offender.
(ii) Where it appears that the defendant has previously been subjected
to a predicate felony conviction as defined in paragraph (b) of
subdivision (1) of section 70.06 of the penal law, a plea of guilty,
whether to the entire indictment or to part of the indictment, of any
offense other than a felony may not be accepted on the condition that it
constitutes a complete disposition of one or more other indictments
against the defendant wherein is charged a felony, other than a class A
felony or a class B or class C violent felony offense as defined in
subdivision one of section 70.02 of the penal law.
(iii) A plea of guilty, whether to the entire indictment or part of
the indictment for any crime other than a class A felony or a class B or
class C violent felony offense as defined in subdivision one of section
70.02 of the penal law, may not be accepted on the condition that it
constitutes a complete disposition of one or more other indictments
against the defendant wherein is charged a class A felony, other than
those defined in article two hundred twenty of the penal law, or a class
B violent felony offense which is also an armed felony offense.
(iv) Except as provided in subparagraph (iii) of this paragraph, a
plea of guilty, whether to the entire indictment or part of the
indictment, for any crime other than a class A felony or a class B, C,
or D violent felony offense as defined in subdivision one of section
70.02 of the penal law, may not be accepted on the condition that it
constitutes a complete disposition of one or more other indictments
against the defendant wherein is charged a class B or class C violent
felony offense as defined in subdivision one of section 70.02 of the
penal law,
(v) A plea of guilty, whether to the entire indictment or part of the
indictment, for any crime other than a violent felony offense as defined
in section 70.02 of the penal law, may not be accepted on the condition

that it constitutes a complete disposition of one or more other
indictments against the defendant wherein is charged the class D violent
felony offenses of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree
as defined in subdivision four, five, seven or eight of section 265.02
of the penal law; provided, however, a plea of guilty, whether to the
entire indictment or part of the indictment, for the class A misdemeanor
of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree as defined in
subdivision one of section 265.01 of the penal law may be accepted on
the condition that it constitutes a complete disposition of one or more
other indictments against the defendant wherein is charged the class D
violent felony offense of criminal possession of a weapon in the third
degree as defined in subdivision four of section 265.02 of the penal law
when the defendant has not been previously convicted of a class A
misdemeanor defined in the penal law in the five years preceding the
commission of the offense.
(vi) A plea of guilty, whether to the entire indictment or to part of
the indictment for any crime other than a felony, may not be accepted on
the condition that it constitutes a complete disposition of one or more
other indictments against the defendant wherein is charged a class B
felony other than a class B violent felony offense as defined in
subdivision one of section 70.02 of the penal law.
(vii) A defendant may not enter a plea of guilty to the crime of
murder in the first degree as defined in section 125.27 of the penal
law; provided, however, that a defendant may enter such a plea with both
the permission of the court and the consent of the people when the
agreed upon sentence is either life imprisonment without parole or a
term of imprisonment for the class A-I felony of murder in the first
degree other than a sentence of life imprisonment without parole.
(viii) A plea of guilty, whether to the entire indictment or to part
of the indictment for any crime other than a class A or class B felony
may not be accepted on condition that it constitutes a complete
disposition of one or more other indictments against the defendant
wherein is charged a class A-II felony defined in article two hundred
twenty of the penal law or the attempt to commit any such felony.
(ix) A plea of guilty, whether to the entire indictment or to part of
the indictment for any crime other than a class B, a class C, or a class
D felony, may not be accepted on condition that it constitutes a
complete disposition of one or more other indictments against the
defendant wherein is charged a class B felony defined in article two
hundred twenty of the penal law.
(c) Where the defendant is a juvenile offender, a plea of guilty,
whether to the entire indictment or to part of the indictment, of any
offense other than one for which the defendant is criminally responsible
may not be accepted on the condition that it constitutes a complete
disposition of one or more other indictments against the defendant.