People v. Pickett, 105748

Decision Date28 May 2015
Docket Number105748
PartiesThe PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Isiah PICKETT, Also Known as Trife, Also Known as Ike, Appellant.
CourtNew York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

128 A.D.3d 1275
9 N.Y.S.3d 737
2015 N.Y. Slip Op. 04525

The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent
v.
Isiah PICKETT, Also Known as Trife, Also Known as Ike, Appellant.

105748

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, New York.

May 28, 2015.


9 N.Y.S.3d 738

Aaron A. Louridas, Delmar, for appellant.

D. Holley Carnright, District Attorney, Kingston (Joan Gudesblatt Lamb of counsel), for respondent.

Before: LAHTINEN, J.P., GARRY, LYNCH and CLARK, JJ.

Opinion

LYNCH, J.

128 A.D.3d 1275

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Ulster County (Williams, J.), rendered October 19, 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 13 charges contained in an indictment stemming from his sale of cocaine on multiple occasions, defendant

128 A.D.3d 1276

entered a guilty plea to criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree. Defendant was sentenced in accordance with the plea agreement to a prison term of five years, with three years of postrelease supervision, and ordered to pay restitution. He now appeals.

We affirm.1 Defendant's claims that his guilty plea was not voluntary, that the plea allocution was not factually sufficient, and that he was not afforded the effective assistance of counsel were not preserved for our review, as he did not raise them in an appropriate postallocution motion and he made no statements during the plea colloquy that would bring this matter within the narrow exception to the preservation requirement (see CPL 220.60 [3] ; 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], lv. denied 25 N.Y.3d 992, 10 N.Y.S.3d 535, 32 N.E.3d 972 [Apr. 20, 2015] ). In any event, these claims lack merit. It was not necessary for defendant to personally recite the elements of the crime or engage in a factual recitation, and his “unequivocal affirmative responses to County Court's questions were sufficient to establish the elements of the crime charged” (People v. Smith, 112 A.D.3d 1232, 1233, 976 N.Y.S.2d 747 [2013], lv. denied 22 N.Y.3d 1203, 986 N.Y.S.2d 423, 9 N.E.3d 918 [2014] [internal quotation marks and citations omitted]; see

People v. Seeber, 4 N.Y.3d 780, 781, 793 N.Y.S.2d 826, 826 N.E.2d 797 [2005] ). Further, the record reflects that defendant was advised of the rights he was relinquishing by pleading guilty and the related consequences, he understood them and had adequate time to confer with counsel, and he entered the guilty plea voluntarily.

Moreover, defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claims predominantly concern what counsel advised him or other matters outside the record on appeal which are more properly pursued in a motion pursuant to CPL article 440, where a record could be made (see People v. Jerome, 98 A.D.3d 1188, 1189, 951 N.Y.S.2d 586 [2012], lv. denied 20 N.Y.3d 987, 958 N.Y.S.2d 702, 982 N.E.2d 622 [2012] ). Given, among other considerations, the advantageous plea agreement negotiated by counsel that greatly reduced defendant's sentencing exposure and defendant's acknowledged satisfaction, during the plea allocution, of counsel's representation, we find that the record fails to support defendant's claim that he was deprived of meaningful representation (see

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