Opinion
KA 02-00472
February 7, 2003.
Appeal from a judgment of Ontario County Court (Harvey, J.), entered January 30, 2002, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of, inter alia, offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree.
DAVID M. PARKS, VICTOR, FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
R. MICHAEL TANTILLO, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, CANANDAIGUA (JEFFREY L. TAYLOR OF COUNSEL), FOR PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT.
PRESENT: PIGOTT, JR., P.J., WISNER, HURLBUTT, SCUDDER, AND LAWTON, JJ.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
It is hereby ORDERED that the judgment so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum:
Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting her, upon her plea of guilty, of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree (Penal Law former § 175.35), welfare fraud in the third degree (§ 158.15) and misuse of food stamps (Social Services Law § 147 [a] [i]) in satisfaction of an 11-count indictment. By failing to move to withdraw her plea or to vacate the judgment of conviction, defendant failed to preserve for our review her contention that the plea allocution is factually insufficient (see People v. Lopez, 71 N.Y.2d 662, 665), and we conclude that the rare case exception to the preservation requirement does not apply here (see id. at 666; People v. DeJesus, 248 A.D.2d 1023, lv denied 92 N.Y.2d 879). We further conclude that the sentence is neither unduly harsh nor severe. Defendant pleaded guilty with the knowledge that County Court intended to impose a sentence that included a term of imprisonment and a five-year term of probation. In imposing an intermittent sentence, the court took into account defendant's scheduling needs with respect to family, work, and education, and the term of imprisonment of 120 days is less than that referred to by the court at the time of the plea.