Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2016-11-11 05:30:20.30433+00
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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
       Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department

886
KA 15-00838
PRESENT: CENTRA, J.P., PERADOTTO, DEJOSEPH, NEMOYER, AND CURRAN, JJ.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, RESPONDENT,

                     V                               MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

KELLY L. MARSHALL, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

FRANK J. NEBUSH, JR., PUBLIC DEFENDER, UTICA (DAVID A. COOKE OF COUNSEL),
FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

SCOTT D. MCNAMARA, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, UTICA (STEVEN G. COX OF COUNSEL),
FOR RESPONDENT.

     Appeal from a judgment of the Oneida County Court (Barry M. Donalty,
J.), rendered December 4, 2013. The judgment convicted defendant, upon
her plea of guilty, of murder in the second degree and robbery in the
first degree.

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

     Memorandum: On appeal from a judgment convicting her upon her plea
of guilty of murder in the second degree (Penal Law ' 125.25 [3]) and
robbery in the first degree (' 160.15 [3]), defendant contends that her
waiver of the right to appeal is invalid. We reject that contention.
Although the form notice signed by defendant recited, among other things,
that she had the right to appeal, that form notice does not constitute
a proper written waiver of the right to appeal (see 22 NYCRR 1022.11 [a];
People v Finster, 136 AD3d 1279, 1280, lv denied 27 NY3d 1132). We
nonetheless conclude that A[t]he plea allocution as a whole establishes
that defendant=s waiver of the right to appeal was knowing, intelligent,
and voluntary@ (People v Brown, 281 AD2d 962, 962, lv denied 96 NY2d 899;
see People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 256). Contrary to defendant=s contention,
County Court Adid not improperly conflate the waiver of the right to appeal
with those rights automatically forfeited by a guilty plea@ (People v
Bentley, 63 AD3d 1624, 1625, lv denied 13 NY3d 742), and we conclude that
the record establishes that the court engaged defendant Ain an adequate
colloquy to ensure that the waiver of the right to appeal was a knowing
and voluntary choice@ (People v Ripley, 94 AD3d 1554, 1554, lv denied
19 NY3d 976 [internal quotation marks omitted]). The valid waiver of
the right to appeal forecloses our review of defendant=s contention that
the sentence is unduly harsh and severe (see generally Lopez, 6 NY3d at
255-256), as well as our review of her contention that the sentence
constitutes cruel and unusual punishment (see People v Santilli, 16 AD3d
1056, 1056-1057; People v Brathwaite, 263 AD2d 89, 92).
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                                                KA 15-00838

Entered:   November 10, 2016         Frances E. Cafarell
                                     Clerk of the Court