Opinion
No. 570413/10.
2013-01-16
The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Westly LEE, Defendant–Appellant.
Defendant appeals from a judgment of the Criminal Court of the City of New York, New York County (Matthew A. Sciarrino, J.) rendered March 11, 2010, convicting him, upon a plea of guilty, of trespass, and imposing sentence.
Present: SCHOENFELD, J.P., SHULMAN, HUNTER, JR., JJ.
PER CURIAM.
Judgment of conviction (Matthew A. Sciarrino, J.), rendered March 11, 2010, affirmed.
Defendant's present challenge to the adequacy of his plea allocution, which does not come within the narrow exception to the preservation requirement, is unpreserved for appellate review since he failed to move to withdraw his guilty plea or seek to vacate the judgment of conviction ( see People v. Lopez, 71 N.Y.2d 662, 665 [1988] ), and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. As an alternative holding, we also reject it on the merits. Defendant's counseled guilty plea to one count of trespass, a violation-with the understanding that he would be sentenced to one day of community service in full satisfaction of an information whose top count was a theft of services charge potentially punishable by a one-year jail sentence-was knowing, intelligent and voluntary. Further, a plea of guilty will be sustained in the absence of a full factual allocution where, as here, there is no indication that the guilty plea assented to by the defendant in the presence of counsel was improvident or baseless ( see People v. Fooks [ People v. Nixon], 21 N.Y.2d 338, 350 [1967] ).