An appellate court declined Thursday to let a defendant withdraw the guilty plea to second-degree murder he entered shortly after speaking with the daughters of the woman he is accused of killing.
Clifford Burns argued before the Appellate Division, Third Department, that his plea in Warren County Court was involuntary because he was distraught after the girls begged him to admit to the stabbing and spare them from having to testify at a trial.
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