People v. Santiago

Citation119 A.D.3d 484,2014 N.Y. Slip Op. 05493,990 N.Y.S.2d 494
PartiesThe PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Natalia SANTIAGO, Defendant-appellant.
Decision Date24 July 2014
CourtNew York Supreme Court Appellate Division

119 A.D.3d 484
990 N.Y.S.2d 494
2014 N.Y. Slip Op. 05493

The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent,
v.
Natalia SANTIAGO, Defendant-appellant.

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

July 24, 2014.



Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Lauren Springer of counsel), for appellant.

Robert T. Johnson, District Attorney's Office, Bronx (Diane A. Shearer of counsel), for respondent.


ACOSTA, J.P., MOSKOWITZ, FREEDMAN, FEINMAN, JJ.

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Denis J. Boyle, J.), rendered May 10,

[990 N.Y.S.2d 495]

2012, convicting defendant, upon her plea of guilty, of two counts of attempted robbery in the second degree, and sentencing her to concurrent terms of three years, to be followed by three years of postrelease supervision, unanimously affirmed.

We find that defendant's purported waiver of her right to appeal was invalid inasmuch as the court did not tell defendant that her right to appeal was separate and distinct from her trial rights, which were automatically forfeited upon her plea of guilty ( see People v. Lopez, 6 N.Y.3d 248, 256–257, 811 N.Y.S.2d 623, 844 N.E.2d 1145 [2006];People v. Williams, 59 A.D.3d 339, 341, 874 N.Y.S.2d 63 [1st Dept.2009],lv. denied12 N.Y.3d 861, 881 N.Y.S.2d 672, 909 N.E.2d 595 [2009] ). Rather, the court asserted that “in the specific circumstances of this particular case” she was agreeing “not to make an appeal” ( see People v. Oquendo, 105 A.D.3d 447, 963 N.Y.S.2d 71 [1st Dept.2013],lv. denied21 N.Y.3d 1007, 971 N.Y.S.2d 259, 993 N.E.2d 1282 [2013] [the defendant's purported waiver of right to appeal was invalid where the court failed to ensure adequately that he understood that the right to appeal was separate and distinct from those rights automatically forfeited upon a guilty plea] ).

In addition, we agree with defendant that the clause in the waiver agreement that purportedly treats the filing of a notice of appeal by defendant as a motion to vacate the judgment to be unenforceable. Specifically, the waiver form included the following clause:

“If the defendant or the defendant's attorney files a notice of appeal that is not limited by a statement to the effect that the appeal is solely with respect to a constitutional speedy trial claim or legality of the sentence, they agree that the District Attorney and or Court may deemed such filing to be a motion by the defendant to vacate the conviction and sentence, and will result, upon the application and...

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