In People v. Brady (97 NY2d 233 [2002]), the People requested in a Sandoval hearing permission to question the defendant at trial about a crime to which he had pleaded guilty, but for which he had not yet been sentenced. Observing that the defendant "had never suggested that he thought the guilty plea the least bit vulnerable or that there was any ground upon which it should or could be vacated," and noting that the defendant had never sought "to withdraw the plea or indicate[d] that he had even the remotest hope or intention of doing so" (97 NY2d at 236), the Court of Appeals held that the defendant had waived his Fifth Amendment right not to be cross-examined about his plea and about the statements he made in the plea allocution.