Opinion
No. KA 05-02437.
February 6, 2009.
Appeal from a judgment of the Monroe County Court (Richard A. Keenan, J.), rendered September 30, 2005. The judgment convicted defendant, upon her plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree (three counts).
TIMOTHY P. DONAHER, PUBLIC DEFENDER, ROCHESTER (WILLIAM CLAUSS OF COUNSEL), FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
THERESA D. HAMILTON, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT PRO SE. MICHAEL C. GREEN, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, ROCHESTER (PATRICK H. FIERRO OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT.
Present: Smith, J.P., Centra, Fahey, Peradotto and Pine, JJ.
It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting her, upon her plea of guilty, of three counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree (Penal Law § 170.25). The contention of defendant that she was denied effective assistance of counsel does not survive her guilty plea because "[t]here is no showing that the plea bargaining process was infected by [the] allegedly ineffective assistance or that defendant entered the plea because of [her] attorney['s] allegedly poor performance" ( People v Robinson, 39 AD3d 1266, 1267, lv denied 9 NY3d 869 [internal quotation marks omitted]; see People v Burke, 256 AD2d 1244, lv denied 93 NY2d 851). In any event, that contention concerns matters outside the record and thus must be raised by way of a motion pursuant to CPL article 440 ( see People v Williams, 48 AD3d 1108, 1109, lv denied 10 NY3d 872; People v Jackson, 4 AD3d 773, lv denied 2 NY3d 801). Finally, the sentence is not unduly harsh or severe.