People v. Labaff
| Decision Date | 23 April 2015 |
| Docket Number | 105481. |
| Parties | The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Michael K. LABAFF, Appellant. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
127 A.D.3d 1471
7 N.Y.S.3d 682
2015 N.Y. Slip Op. 03419
The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent
v.
Michael K. LABAFF, Appellant.
105481.
Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, New York.
April 23, 2015.
John A. Cirando, Syracuse, for appellant.
Mary E. Rain, District Attorney, Canton, for respondent.
Before: PETERS, P.J., EGAN JR., ROSE and LYNCH, JJ.
Opinion
LYNCH, J.
Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of St. Lawrence County (Richards, J.), rendered October 11, 2012, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree.
In satisfaction of various charges against him, defendant pleaded guilty to a superior court information charging him with criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and purportedly waived his right to appeal. The plea agreement contemplated that defendant would enter into the Judicial Diversion Program and that, if he failed to complete the program, he would face a term of imprisonment to be followed by postrelease supervision. Defendant was ultimately charged with violating the terms of the program and was terminated from it after waiving his right to a hearing and admitting that he had used cocaine and lied to program officials about that usage (see CPL 216.05 [9 ] ). County Court agreed to, and did, sentence defendant to a prison term of six years to be followed by postrelease supervision of three years. Defendant now appeals.
Initially, we agree with defendant that his waiver of the right to appeal is invalid, as “he was not advised that it was a right separate and distinct from the other rights that he was forfeiting by pleading guilty” (People v. Bressard, 112 A.D.3d 988, 988, 976 N.Y.S.2d 302 [2013], lv. denied 22 N.Y.3d 1137, 983 N.Y.S.2d 495, 6 N.E.3d 614 [2014] ; see People v. Bradshaw, 18 N.Y.3d 257, 264, 938 N.Y.S.2d 254, 961 N.E.2d 645 [2011] ). Defendant's further challenge to the voluntariness of his plea was not preserved for our review by a postallocution motion to withdraw his plea, and he said nothing during the plea colloquy that would bring this case within the narrow exception to the preservation requirement
(see People v. Lopez, 71 N.Y.2d 662, 665–666, 529 N.Y.S.2d 465, 525 N.E.2d 5 [1988] ; People v. Skidds, 123 A.D.3d 1342, 1342–1343, 999 N.Y.S.2d 266 [2014] ). Likewise, defendant has not preserved his argument that County Court abused its discretion in terminating him from the Judicial Diversion
Program, as he admitted to violating the terms of the program in return for a specified sentence and made no effort to attack that agreement before County Court (see People v. Disotell, 123 A.D.3d 1230, 1231, 999 N.Y.S.2d 240 [2014] ).
Turning to issues relating to defendant's sentence, we are unpersuaded that the agreed-upon sentence was harsh and excessive given defendant's extensive criminal history (see People v. Cooney, 120 A.D.3d 1445, 1446, 991 N.Y.S.2d 676 [2014] ; People v. Johnson, 12 A.D.3d 727, 727–728, 783 N.Y.S.2d 724 [2004], lv. denied 4 N.Y.3d 745, 790 N.Y.S.2d 657, 824 N.E.2d 58 [2004] ). It is lastly...
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