Court Opinion

ID: 5927406
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 04:53:35.118198+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:46:38.629883
License: Public Domain

*1287Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Schenectady County (Hoye, J.), rendered December 14, 2010, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of attempted burglary in the second degree.
In satisfaction of a two-count indictment, defendant pleaded guilty to attempted burglary in the second degree and waived his right to appeal. In accord with the plea agreement, he was sentenced as a second felony offender to 4V2 years in prison, to be followed by five years of postrelease supervision. Defendant appeals.
Appellate counsel seeks to be relieved of his assignment of representing defendant on the ground that there are no nonfrivolous issues to be raised on appeal. Based upon our review of the record, we disagree. We have identified one issue of arguable merit pertaining to the validity of defendant’s waiver of the right to appeal that may have implications for other potential appellate issues (see People v Roche, 82 AD3d 1364, 1365 [2011]; People v Morton, 45 AD3d 1191, 1191 [2007]). Therefore, without passing judgment upon the ultimate merit of this issue, we grant counsel’s application and assign new counsel to address this issue and any others that the record may disclose (see People v Cruwys, 113 AD2d 979, 980 [1985], lv denied 67 NY2d 650 [1986]; see generally People v Stokes, 95 NY2d 633 [2001]).
Peters, EJ., Rose, Lahtinen and Garry, JJ., concur. Ordered that the decision is withheld, application to be relieved of assignment granted and new counsel to be assigned.