Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Jeffrey Fraser, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1999-05-13
Citations: 261 A.D.2d 206
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Jeffrey Fraser, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 261
Pages: 206–206

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Jeffrey Fraser, Appellant.
[691 NYS2d 30]

Opinion:
—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Joseph Fisch, J.), rendered April 18, 1997, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of attempted robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of 3V2 to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.
Contrary to the People's contention, defendant's waiver of his right to appeal does not foreclose review of his present challenge to the voluntariness of the plea (People v Seaberg, 74 NY2d 1, 10). However, defendant's claim is unpreserved since he failed to challenge the plea allocution by moving either to withdraw the plea or to vacate the judgment of conviction (see, People v Toxey, 86 NY2d 725), and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. Were we to review this claim, we would find that the totality of the allocution establishes the voluntariness of the plea. The particular one-word response that defendant now cites as evidence of involuntariness was inadvertent and was clarified moments later. Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Nardelli, Wallach, Andrias and Saxe, JJ.