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People v. Bender

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department
Mar 29, 2000
270 A.D.2d 924 (N.Y. App. Div. 2000)

Opinion

March 29, 2000.

Appeal from Judgment of Oneida County Court, Donalty, J. — Robbery, 1st Degree.

PRESENT: PIGOTT, JR., P. J., WISNER, SCUDDER AND LAWTON, JJ.


Judgment unanimously affirmed.

Memorandum:

Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon a plea of guilty of robbery in the first degree (Penal Law § 160.15). By pleading guilty, defendant forfeited his contentions concerning the denial of his request to file a late notice of psychiatric defense ( see, People v. Di Donato, 87 N.Y.2d 992, 993), the ineffectiveness of defense counsel in that regard ( see, People v. Petgen, 55 N.Y.2d 529, 534-535, rearg denied 57 N.Y.2d 674) and the unconstitutionality of County Law § 722-b County ( see, People v. Taylor, 65 N.Y.2d 1, 5). Furthermore, those contentions are encompassed by his waiver of the right to appeal ( see, People v. Saunders, 190 A.D.2d 1092, lv denied 81 N.Y.2d 1019), the validity of which he does not contest. Defendant contends that the plea allocution was insufficient because it did not address a possible psychiatric defense. Defendant failed to move to withdraw the plea or to vacate the judgment of conviction on that basis, however, and thus that contention is not preserved for our review ( see, People v. Murray, ___ A.D.2d ___ [decided Dec. 2, 1999]). This is not the "rare case * * * where the defendant's recitation of the facts underlying the crime pleaded to clearly casts significant doubt upon the defendant's guilt or otherwise calls into question the voluntariness of the plea" ( People v. Lopez, 71 N.Y.2d 662, 666).


Summaries of

People v. Bender

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department
Mar 29, 2000
270 A.D.2d 924 (N.Y. App. Div. 2000)
Case details for

People v. Bender

Case Details

Full title:PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. JOSEPH BENDER…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department

Date published: Mar 29, 2000

Citations

270 A.D.2d 924 (N.Y. App. Div. 2000)
706 N.Y.S.2d 653

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