Case ID: ad3d_89/html/1323-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Stein, 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 Timothy Hall, Appellant.
    [932 NYS2d 919]
   Stein, J.

Defendant pleaded guilty to burglary in the first degree in full satisfaction of a 22-count indictment filed against him in connection with a home invasion in the Town of Catskill, Greene County. Pursuant to the negotiated plea agreement, defendant was sentenced to 8V2 years in prison followed by five years of postrelease supervision. Defendant now appeals.

Inasmuch as defendant’s claim that his guilty plea was induced by an unfulfilled promise implicates the voluntariness of his plea, it is not precluded by defendant’s valid appeal waiver (see People v Jones, 77 AD3d 1178, 1178 [2010], lv denied 16 NY3d 832 [2011]). However, defendant failed to preserve the argument by moving to withdraw his plea or vacate the judgment of conviction (see People v Jones, 77 AD3d at 1178; People v Oliver, 26 AD3d 675, 676 [2006], lv denied 7 NY3d 760 [2006]; People v Parsons, 3 AD3d 790, 791 [2004]).

To the extent that defendant’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel also implicates the voluntariness of his plea, it is similarly unpreserved. Furthermore, the narrow exception to the preservation rule is inapplicable here, inasmuch as defendant did not make any statements during the plea allocution that cast significant doubt on his guilt or tended to negate a material element of the crime (see People v Gantt, 84 AD3d 1642, 1643 [2011]).

Spain, J.E, Rose, Kavanagh and Garry, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.