Opinion
122 KA 16-02346
02-05-2021
TIMOTHY P. DONAHER, PUBLIC DEFENDER, ROCHESTER (BENJAMIN L. NELSON OF COUNSEL), FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLANT. SANDRA DOORLEY, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, ROCHESTER (LISA GRAY OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT.
TIMOTHY P. DONAHER, PUBLIC DEFENDER, ROCHESTER (BENJAMIN L. NELSON OF COUNSEL), FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
SANDRA DOORLEY, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, ROCHESTER (LISA GRAY OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT.
PRESENT: PERADOTTO, J.P., CARNI, NEMOYER, TROUTMAN, AND WINSLOW, JJ.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
It is hereby ORDERED that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon a plea of guilty of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree ( Penal Law § 265.03 [3] ). As an initial matter, we agree with defendant that he did not validly waive his right to appeal because Supreme Court's oral colloquy and the written waiver of the right to appeal provided defendant with erroneous information about the scope of that waiver and failed to identify that certain rights would survive the waiver (see People v. Thomas , 34 N.Y.3d 545, 565-566, 122 N.Y.S.3d 226, 144 N.E.3d 970 [2019], cert denied ––– U.S. ––––, 140 S. Ct. 2634, 206 L.Ed.2d 512 [2020] ; People v. Crogan , 181 A.D.3d 1212, 1212-1213, 118 N.Y.S.3d 484 [4th Dept. 2020], lv denied 35 N.Y.3d 1026, 126 N.Y.S.3d 31, 149 N.E.3d 869 [2020] ).
Defendant contends that the court should have suppressed statements and tangible evidence because one of the officers who approached the vehicle in which defendant was seated effected an unlawful seizure before he or any other officer detected the odor of marihuana emanating from the vehicle. Defendant's contention is not preserved for our review inasmuch as he failed to raise that specific contention in his motion papers, at the suppression hearing, or in his posthearing papers as a ground for suppression (see People v. Watkins , 151 A.D.3d 1913, 1913, 57 N.Y.S.3d 841 [4th Dept. 2017], lv denied 30 N.Y.3d 984, 67 N.Y.S.3d 586, 89 N.E.3d 1266 [2017] ; see generally People v. Hudson , 158 A.D.3d 1087, 1087, 70 N.Y.S.3d 676 [4th Dept. 2018], lv denied 31 N.Y.3d 1117, 81 N.Y.S.3d 377, 106 N.E.3d 760 [2018] ), and we decline to exercise our power to review that contention as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice (see CPL 470.15 [3] [c] ).