Court Opinion

ID: 5967265
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 07:22:16.624843+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:48:21.503521
License: Public Domain

Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon his plea of guilty of, inter alia, felony driving while intoxicated (Vehicle and Traffic Law §§ 1192 [3]; 1193 [1] [c] [i]). Pursuant to the plea agreement, County Court agreed to release defendant under supervision and to adjourn sentencing in order to afford defendant an opportunity to undergo a drug treatment program. If defendant successfully completed the program, the court would permit defendant to withdraw his plea and substitute therefor a plea of guilty to misdemeanor *1135driving while intoxicated. If, however, defendant failed to complete the program successfully or otherwise violated the terms and conditions of his release, the court would sentence defendant to a term of incarceration. After defendant was unsuccessfully discharged from drug treatment, the court sentenced defendant to an indeterminate term of incarceration. Defendant failed to preserve for our review his contention that the court abused its discretion in determining that he had violated the terms of his release inasmuch as he did not request a hearing on that issue, nor did he move to withdraw his plea or to vacate the judgment of conviction (see People v Malaj, 69 AD3d 487, 487-488 [2010], lv denied 15 NY3d 776 [2010]; People v Saucier, 69 AD3d 1125, 1125-1126 [2010]). Contrary to the further contention of defendant, the court did not “reject” the plea agreement. Rather, the court properly sentenced defendant to a term of incarceration when defendant failed to abide by the conditions of his plea and supervised release and, indeed, acknowledged that he had been unsuccessfully discharged from a residential drug treatment placement (see People v Valencia, 3 NY3d 714, 715 [2004]; Malaj, 69 AD3d at 488; People v Casey R.B., 35 AD3d 1200, 1201 [2006], lv denied 8 NY3d 920 [2007]).
Finally, defendant’s sentence is not unduly harsh or severe. Present — Centra, J.P., Peradotto, Garni, Lindley and Valentino, JJ.