SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department

297 

KA 11-02598 

PRESENT: SCUDDER, P.J., CENTRA, FAHEY, PERADOTTO, AND WHALEN, JJ. 

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, RESPONDENT, 

V MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JURELL D. BARBER, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT. 

(APPEAL NO. 1.) 

 

PETER J. DIGIORGIO, JR., UTICA, FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

SCOTT D. MCNAMARA, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, UTICA (STEVEN G. COX OF

COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT. 

 

Appeal from a judgment of the Oneida County Court (Michael L.

Dwyer, J.), rendered September 8, 2010. The judgment convicted

defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of burglary in the first degree. 

It is hereby ORDERED that the judgment so appealed from is

unanimously affirmed. 

Memorandum: In appeal No. 1, defendant appeals from a judgment

convicting him upon his plea of guilty of burglary in the first degree

(Penal Law § 140.30 [2]) and, in appeal No. 2, defendant appeals from

a judgment convicting him upon his plea of guilty of criminal

possession of a weapon in the second degree (§ 265.03 [3]). Defendant

contends in both appeals that his waiver of the right to appeal is

invalid. We reject that contention. The record establishes that

County Court “ ‘engage[d] the defendant in an adequate colloquy to

ensure that the waiver of the right to appeal was a knowing and

voluntary choice’ ” (People v Ripley, 94 AD3d 1554, 1554, lv denied 19

NY3d 976; see People v Wright, 66 AD3d 1334, 1334, lv denied 13 NY3d

912), and that defendant understood that the right to appeal is

separate and distinct from those rights automatically forfeited upon a

plea of guilty (see People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 256; Ripley, 94 AD3d

at 1554; People v Korber, 89 AD3d 1543, 1543, lv denied 19 NY3d 864). 

Defendant’s valid waiver of the right to appeal encompasses his

challenge to the severity of the sentence in appeal No. 1 (see Lopez,

6 NY3d at 256).

Although defendant’s contention in appeal No. 2 that his guilty

plea was not knowing, voluntary and intelligent survives his waiver of

the right to appeal, defendant failed to preserve that contention for

our review inasmuch as he did not move to withdraw the plea or to

vacate the judgment of conviction (see People v Theall, 109 AD3d 1107,

1107-1108; People v Rossborough, 101 AD3d 1775, 1776; People v
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Russell, 55 AD3d 1314, 1314-1315, lv denied 11 NY3d 930), and this

case does not fall within the narrow exception to the preservation

requirement (see People v Lopez, 71 NY2d 662, 666). Although

defendant stated during the plea colloquy that he possessed the weapon

in his home, he further admitted that he “ha[d] been previously

convicted of a[ ] crime” (Penal Law § 265.02 [1]; see § 265.03 [3];

see generally People v Hughes, 22 NY3d 44, 49-50). Where, as here,

“the defendant has a previous conviction, the [home exception] never

comes into play, [and] its inapplicability is not an element of the

offense” (People v Jones, 22 NY3d 53, 60).

Finally, defendant contends in appeal No. 2 that the indictment

was jurisdictionally defective because it did not allege that the home

exception was inapplicable (see Penal Law § 265.03 [3]). Although

that contention survives his waiver of the right to appeal (see People

v Iannone, 45 NY2d 589, 600-601; People v Holmes, 101 AD3d 1632, 1633,

lv denied 21 NY3d 944; People v Crummell, 84 AD3d 1393, 1394, lv

denied 17 NY3d 858), it is without merit (see Jones, 22 NY3d at 60).

Entered: May 2, 2014 Frances E. Cafarell

Clerk of the Court