Court Opinion

ID: 4083148
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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
              Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department

765
KA 10-00659
PRESENT: SMITH, J.P., FAHEY, PERADOTTO, SCONIERS, AND VALENTINO, JJ.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, RESPONDENT,

          V                                        MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

RODNEY L. SCALES, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

TIMOTHY P. DONAHER, PUBLIC DEFENDER, ROCHESTER (DAVID R. JUERGENS OF
COUNSEL), FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

SANDRA DOORLEY, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, ROCHESTER (MATTHEW DUNHAM OF
COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT.

     Appeal from a judgment of the Monroe County Court (John J.
Connell, J.), rendered March 19, 2010. The judgment convicted
defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of attempted robbery in the first
degree.

     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 attempted robbery in the first degree
(Penal Law §§ 110.00, 160.15 [4]). Defendant failed to preserve for
our review his challenge to the factual sufficiency of the plea
allocution because he did not move to withdraw the plea or to vacate
the judgment of conviction on that ground (see People v Lopez, 71 NY2d
662, 665). In any event, “no factual colloquy was required inasmuch
as defendant pleaded guilty to a lesser included offense” (People v
Thelbert, 17 AD3d 1049, 1049; see People v Thousand, 96 AD3d 1439,
1440, lv denied 19 NY3d 1002).

     Defendant further contends that County Court should have afforded
him the opportunity to withdraw his guilty plea because his postplea
assertions of innocence cast doubt on whether the plea was knowingly,
intelligently, and voluntarily entered. Defendant did not move to
withdraw the plea or vacate the judgment on that ground and, thus,
that contention is not preserved for our review (see People v Eagle,
105 AD3d 1453, 1453-1454, lv denied 21 NY3d 1073; cf. People v Nelson,
66 AD3d 1430, 1430, lv denied 14 NY3d 772). In any event, that
contention lacks merit. “ ‘[A] defendant is not entitled to withdraw
his guilty plea based on a subsequent unsupported claim of innocence,
where the guilty plea was voluntarily made with the advice of counsel
following an appraisal of all the relevant factors’ ” (People v
Alexander, 97 NY2d 482, 485; see People v Gleen, 73 AD3d 1443, 1444,
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                                          KA 10-00659

lv denied 15 NY3d 773).

Entered:   June 20, 2014         Frances E. Cafarell
                                 Clerk of the Court