People v. Garry

90 A.D.3d 1569, 934 N.Y.2d 912

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: December 23, 2011
• Status: Published

Opinion

Memorandum:

Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him, upon his guilty plea, of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree (Penal Law §§ 110.00, 220.16 [1]). We reject defendant’s contention that his waiver of his right to appeal was invalid. The record of the plea colloquy and the written waiver of the right to appeal establish that defendant was “adequately apprised . . . that ‘the right to appeal is separate and distinct from those rights automatically forfeited upon a plea of guilty’ ” (People v Kulyeshie, 71 AD3d 1478, 1478 [2010], lv denied 14 NY3d 889 [2010], quoting People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 256 [2006]). Although defendant’s contention that his plea was not voluntarily, knowingly, and intelligently entered survives his valid waiver of the right to appeal, defendant failed to preserve that contention for our review by moving to withdraw the plea or to vacate the judgment of conviction (see People v Davis, 45 AD3d 1357 [2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 1005 [2007]; People v Jones, 42 AD3d 968 [2007]). Further, contrary to defendant’s contention, this case does not fall within the rare exception to the preservation requirement set forth in People v Lopez (71 NY2d 662, 666 [1988]), because nothing in the plea allocution calls into question the voluntariness of the plea or casts “significant doubt” upon his guilt (People v Lewandowski, 82 AD3d 1602, 1602 [2011]; see Lopez, 71 NY2d at 666; Jones, 42 AD3d 968). Present — Scudder, PJ., Centra, Green, Gorski and Martoche, JJ.