People v. Levy
| Decision Date | 17 January 2012 |
| Citation | 91 A.D.3d 793,2012 N.Y. Slip Op. 00389,938 N.Y.S.2d 315 |
| Parties | The PEOPLE, etc., respondent, v. Brielle LEVY, appellant. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
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Mark Diamond, New York, N.Y., for appellant.
Thomas J. Spota, District Attorney, Riverhead, N.Y. (Grazia DiVincenzo of counsel), for respondent.
MARK C. DILLON, J.P., THOMAS A. DICKERSON, CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, and ROBERT J. MILLER, JJ.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Hudson, J.), rendered July 1, 2010, convicting her of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs, upon her plea of guilty, and imposing a sentence of probation including a directive that she install an ignition interlock device on her vehicle.
ORDERED that the judgment is modified, on the law, by deleting the provision thereof directing that, as a condition of probation, the defendant install an ignition interlock device on her vehicle; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.
At sentencing the defendant moved to withdraw her plea of guilty, asserting that she was innocent. The County Court providently exercised its discretion in denying this motion since the defendant's “unsupported conclusory allegations of innocence did not warrant the vacatur of [her] guilty plea” ( People v. Dickerson, 163 A.D.2d 610, 559 N.Y.S.2d 40; see People v. Telfair, 299 A.D.2d 429, 749 N.Y.S.2d 436; People v. Tuttle, 141 A.D.2d 584, 530 N.Y.S.2d 158). The defendant also contends that her plea of guilty was invalid because she was not informed at the time of the plea of the specific amount of community service that she would have to serve as part of her sentence. This contention, however, is unpreserved for appellate review, since the County Court informed the defendant, at the outset of the sentencing proceeding, of the specific amount of community service it would impose and the defendant did not subsequently raise this issue in support of her motion to withdraw her plea of guilty ( see People v. Murray, 15 N.Y.3d 725, 726–727, 906 N.Y.S.2d 521, 932 N.E.2d 877). We decline to review this contention in the exercise of our interest of justice jurisdiction.
The defendant's waiver of her right to appeal, executed as part of her plea agreement, was voluntary, knowing, and intelligent ( see People v. Lopez, 6 N.Y.3d 248, 256–257, 811 N.Y.S.2d 623, 844 N.E.2d 1145; People v. Watt, 82 A.D.3d 912, 918 N.Y.S.2d 347; People v. Kirkorov, 68 A.D.3d 1014, 889 N.Y.S.2d 862). The defendant's valid waiver of her right to appeal precludes appellate review of her claim that the County Court should have considered granting her a certificate of relief from disabilities and forfeitures and her related ineffective assistance of counsel claim, which did not affect the voluntariness of her plea ( see People v. Bajramaj, 54 A.D.3d 769, 864 N.Y.S.2d 66; People v. DeLuca, 45 A.D.3d 777, 847 N.Y.S.2d 198; People v. Scott, 39 A.D.3d 570, 571, 834 N.Y.S.2d 226).
However, the defendant's waiver of her right to appeal does not preclude review of her contention that a condition of her...
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