Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. James Fox, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2013-02-08
Citations: 103 A.D.3d 1225
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v James Fox, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 103
Pages: 1225–1226

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v James Fox, Appellant.
[958 NYS2d 916]

Opinion:
Appeal from a judgment of the Ontario County Court (Craig J. Doran, J.), rendered July 22, 2011. The judgment convicted defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of failure to register as a sex offender.
It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon his plea of guilty of failure to register as a sex offender (Correction Law § 168-f [4]; 168-t). By failing to move to withdraw his plea or to vacate the judgment of conviction, defendant failed to preserve for our review his contention that his statement during the allocution concerning a potential suppression issue rendered the plea involuntary (see People v Lopez, 71 NY2d 662, 667-668 [1988]). In any event, defendant's contention lacks merit because the record establishes that, following an inquiry by County Court, he affirmatively waived his right to challenge the admissibility of his statement to the police (see generally People v Mackie, 54 AD3d 651, 652 [2008], lv denied 11 NY3d 898 [2008]). Defendant's further contention that defense counsel's failure to move to suppress the statement at issue deprived him of meaningful representation does not survive his plea because there is no indication that the plea was infected by defense counsel's alleged ineffectiveness (see People v La Bar, 16 AD3d 1084, 1085 [2005], lv denied 5 NY3d 764 [2005]). We note, in any event, that such a motion would have had little chance of success on these facts, and thus defense counsel was not ineffective for failing to make a motion on that basis (see generally People v Caban, 5 NY3d 143, 152 [2005]). Present—Scudder, RJ., Fahey, Lindley, Valentino and Martoche, JJ.