Opinion
2022-00768
02-04-2022
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, RESPONDENT, v. ROBERT A. ADORNO DAVILLA, ALSO KNOWN AS ROBERT ADORNO, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
LEANNE LAPP, PUBLIC DEFENDER, CANANDAIGUA, D.J. & J.A. CIRANDO, PLLC, SYRACUSE (JOHN A. CIRANDO OF COUNSEL), FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLANT. JAMES B. RITTS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, CANANDAIGUA (V. CHRISTOPHER EAGGLESTON OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT.
LEANNE LAPP, PUBLIC DEFENDER, CANANDAIGUA, D.J. & J.A. CIRANDO, PLLC, SYRACUSE (JOHN A. CIRANDO OF COUNSEL), FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
JAMES B. RITTS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, CANANDAIGUA (V. CHRISTOPHER EAGGLESTON OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT.
PRESENT: WHALEN, P.J., SMITH, CENTRA, AND PERADOTTO, JJ.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Ontario County (Craig J. Doran, J.), rendered February 20, 2019. The judgment convicted defendant upon his plea of guilty of assault in the second degree, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration in the second degree and harassment in the second 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, inter alia, assault in the second degree (Penal Law § 120.05 [3]). Defendant contends that his plea was "improperly" entered because he provided only "yes" and "no" responses to questions asked of him during the plea colloquy. Defendant failed to preserve for our review that challenge to the factual sufficiency of the plea allocution because he did not move to withdraw his guilty plea or vacate the judgment of conviction (see People v Turner, 175 A.D.3d 1783, 1784 [4th Dept 2019], lv denied 34 N.Y.3d 1082 [2019]; People v Bennett, 165 A.D.3d 1624, 1625 [4th Dept 2018]). This case does not fall within the rare exception to the preservation requirement (see People v Lopez, 71 N.Y.2d 662, 666 [1988]). In any event, we conclude that defendant's "monosyllabic responses to [Supreme Court's] questions did not render the plea invalid" (People v Loper, 118 A.D.3d 1394, 1395 [4th Dept 2014], lv denied 25 N.Y.3d 1204 [2015] [internal quotation marks omitted]; see Bennett, 165 A.D.3d at 1625; People v Barrett, 153 A.D.3d 1600, 1600 [4th Dept 2017], lv denied 30 N.Y.3d 1058 [2017]).
Contrary to defendant's further contention, the sentence is not unduly harsh or severe.