People v. Praileau
| Decision Date | 01 October 2013 |
| Citation | 971 N.Y.S.2d 533,2013 N.Y. Slip Op. 06298,110 A.D.3d 415 |
| Parties | The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Derrick PRAILEAU, Defendant–Appellant. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
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Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Nicolas Schumann–Ortega of counsel), for appellant.
Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Ellen Stanfield Friedman of counsel), for respondent.
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Berkman, J.), rendered June 17, 2011, as amended June 27, 2011, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of murder in the first and second degrees and attempted rape in the first degree, and sentencing him to an aggregate term of 23 years to life, unanimously affirmed.
Because defendant never moved to withdraw his guilty plea or to vacate the judgment, his challenge to the voluntariness of his plea is unpreserved, and we decline to review it in the interest of justice ( see e.g. People v. Negron, 222 A.D.2d 327, 635 N.Y.S.2d 615 [1st Dept. 1995], lv. denied88 N.Y.2d 882, 645 N.Y.S.2d 457, 668 N.E.2d 428 [1996] ). The narrow exception to the preservation rule ( see People v. Lopez, 71 N.Y.2d 662, 666, 529 N.Y.S.2d 465, 525 N.E.2d 5 [1988] ) does not apply here, because nothing in the plea allocution cast any doubt on defendant's guilt.
As an alternative holding, we reject his argument on the merits. The plea allocution record establishes the voluntariness of the plea. “[D]efendant said nothing about intoxication in his plea allocution itself, regardless of what he may have said on other occasions” ( People v. Wilson, 107 A.D.3d 532, 532, 966 N.Y.S.2d 670 [1st Dept. 2013] ), and the court was “not required to make a sua sponte inquiry regarding defendant's mention of intoxication” at other junctures ( People v. Fiallo, 6 A.D.3d 176, 177, 777 N.Y.S.2d 297 [1st Dept. 2004],lv. denied3 N.Y.3d 640, 782 N.Y.S.2d 411, 816 N.E.2d 201 [2004] ). In any event, there is nothing in the record to suggest that defendant's intoxication rendered him unable to form the requisite intent to commit murder and rape ( see generallyPenal Law § 15.25).
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