Court Opinion

ID: 4164530
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2017-04-28 19:17:36.923242+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:23:50.217128
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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
             Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department

492
KA 15-01891
PRESENT: SMITH, J.P., CARNI, DEJOSEPH, NEMOYER, AND TROUTMAN, JJ.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, RESPONDENT,

                      V                              MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

BENJAMIN SHEPPARD, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

SESSLER LAW PC, GENESEO (STEVEN D. SESSLER OF COUNSEL), FOR
DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

GREGORY J. MCCAFFREY, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, GENESEO (JOSHUA J. TONRA OF
COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT.

     Appeal from a judgment of the Livingston County Court (Dennis S.
Cohen, J.), rendered September 3, 2015. The judgment convicted
defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of assault in the second degree.

     It is hereby ORDERED that the judgment so appealed from is
unanimously affirmed.

     Memorandum: On appeal from a judgment convicting him upon a plea
of guilty of assault in the second degree (Penal Law § 120.05 [7]),
defendant contends that his plea was not voluntarily, knowingly, or
intelligently entered. Defendant failed to preserve his contention
for our review inasmuch as he did not move to withdraw his plea or to
vacate the judgment of conviction pursuant to CPL article 440 (see
People v Hill, 128 AD3d 1479, 1480, lv denied 26 NY3d 930). Contrary
to defendant’s contention, this case does not fall within the rare
exception to the preservation doctrine inasmuch as nothing in the plea
colloquy “casts significant doubt upon the defendant’s guilt or
otherwise calls into question the voluntariness of the plea” (People v
Lopez, 71 NY2d 662, 666; see Hill, 128 AD3d at 1480). To the extent
that defendant’s contention is based upon matters outside the record,
he may raise his contention in a motion pursuant to CPL 440.10 (see
People v Medina, 132 AD3d 1363, 1364).

Entered:    April 28, 2017                         Frances E. Cafarell
                                                   Clerk of the Court