Case ID: ad2d_302/html/0924-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Frank A. Dargento, Appellant.
    [755 NYS2d 535]
   Appeal from a judgment of Wayne County Court (Sirkin, J.), entered December 11, 2001, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of felony driving while intoxicated.

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed.

Memorandum: On appeal from a judgment convicting him upon his plea of guilty of felony driving while intoxicated (Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1192 [2]; § 1193 [1] [c] [i]), defendant contends that the results of his breathalyzer test should have been suppressed because the breathalyzer instrument had not been calibrated within six months of that test. Defendant is foreclosed by his plea from raising this evidentiary issue (see People v McDonald, 73 NY2d 481, 486). In any event, contrary to defendant’s contention there is no such “six-month rule”; rather, the People must establish only that the breathalyzer instrument “was in proper working order” (People v Todd, 38 NY2d 755, 756; see People v Manino, 147 AD2d 926). Present— Pigott, Jr., P.J., Wisner, Hurlbutt, Scudder and Lawton, JJ.