Case ID: ad3d_73/html/1229-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Cardona, P.J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Luis Alvarez, Appellant.
    [899 NYS2d 679]
   Cardona, P.J.

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Albany County (Herrick, J.), rendered March 10, 2008, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree.

In satisfaction of a three-count indictment, defendant pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree. Pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement, defendant waived his right to appeal and was sentenced to two years in prison followed by one year of post-release supervision.

Defendant’s challenge to the voluntariness of his plea, which survives his appeal waiver, is not preserved for our review absent a motion to withdraw the plea or vacate the judgment of conviction (see People v Scitz, 67 AD3d 1251 [2009]). Furthermore, inasmuch as a review of the plea colloquy does not “clearly cast[ ] significant doubt upon . . . defendant’s guilt or otherwise call[ ] into question the voluntariness of the plea,” we are unpersuaded by defendant’s contention that the narrow exception to the preservation doctrine applies (People v Lopez, 71 NY2d 662, 666 [1988]; see People v Wilson, 16 AD3d 781, 781 [2005]).

Mercure, Spain, Kavanagh and Garry, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.