Opinion
No. 2021-242 S CR
12-07-2023
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Deirdre Hoover, Appellant.
Deirdre Hoover, appellant pro se. Suffolk County District Attorney (Shiry Gaash and Glenn Green of counsel), for respondent.
Unpublished Opinion
Deirdre Hoover, appellant pro se.
Suffolk County District Attorney (Shiry Gaash and Glenn Green of counsel), for respondent.
PRESENT:: ELIZABETH H. EMERSON, J.P., TIMOTHY S. DRISCOLL, GRETCHEN WALSH, JJ
Appeal from a judgment of the District Court of Suffolk County, First District (Eric Sachs, J.), rendered April 12, 2021. The judgment, after a nonjury trial, convicted defendant of driving while ability impaired, and imposed sentence.
ORDERED that the judgment of conviction is affirmed.
Defendant was charged in separate accusatory instruments with, respectively, driving while intoxicated per se (Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1192 [2]), common-law driving while intoxicated (Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1192 [3]), failure to maintain a lane (Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1128 [c]), and driving while ability impaired (Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1192 [1]). After a nonjury trial, defendant was convicted of driving while ability impaired and sentence was imposed.
On appeal, defendant contends that the court improperly curtailed cross- examination of the arresting officer regarding his interaction with defendant the day after she was arrested. In our opinion, the court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in limiting the cross-examination of the arresting officer, since the proposed line of questioning was only marginally relevant and concerned collateral issues (see People v Allgood, 216 A.D.3d 995 [2023]; People v Mitchell, 188 A.D.3d 1101 [2020]).
Defendant's contention that she was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel is based, in part, on matter appearing on the record and, in part, on matter outside the record, and thus, constitutes a "mixed claim of ineffective assistance" (People v Maxwell, 89 A.D.3d 1108, 1109 [2011]; see People v Evans, 16 N.Y.3d 571, 575 n 2 [2011]). "Since the defendant's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel cannot be resolved without reference to matter outside the record, a CPL 440.10 proceeding is the appropriate forum for reviewing the claim in its entirety, and we decline to review the claim on this direct appeal (see People v Freeman, 93 A.D.3d 805, 806 [2012]; People v Maxwell, 89 A.D.3d at 1109)" (People v Llanos, 215 A.D.3d 691, 691 [2023]).
Defendant's remaining contentions either lack merit or, because they are based on matters outside the record, would need to be raised in a motion pursuant to CPL 440.10.
Accordingly, the judgment of conviction is affirmed.
EMERSON, J.P., DRISCOLL and WALSH, JJ., concur.