| People v Webster |
| 2012 NY Slip Op 00544 [91 AD3d 1275] |
| January 31, 2012 |
| Appellate Division, Fourth Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau
pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| As corrected through Wednesday, February 29, 2012 |
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Billie
Jo Webster, Appellant. (Appeal No. 1.) |
James L. Dowsey, III, Ellicottville (Keliann M. Elniski of counsel), for
defendant-appellant.
Lori Pettit Rieman, District Attorney, Little Valley (Kelly M. Balcom of counsel), for
respondent.
Appeal from a judgment of the Cattaraugus County Court (Larry M. Himelein, J.),
rendered September 13, 2010. The judgment convicted defendant, upon her plea of guilty, of
attempted forgery in the second degree.
It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum: In appeal No. 1, defendant appeals from a judgment of County Court
convicting her upon her guilty plea of attempted forgery in the second degree (Penal Law
110.00, 170.10). In appeal No. 2, defendant appeals from a judgment of the same court revoking
her sentence of probation for a misdemeanor charge to which she previously had pleaded guilty
and resentencing her to one year in jail. Defendant's plea in appeal No. 1 necessarily constituted
an admission that she violated the terms and conditions of her probation in appeal No. 2.
Defendant's primary contention in each appeal is that she did not receive the sentence
promised by the court and thus that her pleas in both appeals were not knowingly, voluntarily and
intelligently entered. Although that contention survives defendant's valid waiver of the right to
appeal entered in connection with the plea in appeal No. 1 and thus in connection with the plea in
appeal No. 2, defendant failed to preserve that contention for our review by moving to withdraw
her pleas or to vacate the judgments of conviction (see People v Montanez, 89 AD3d 1409
[2011]). We decline to exercise our power to review that contention as a matter of discretion in
the interest of justice (see CPL 470.15 [6] [a]). Defendant's contention that she received
ineffective assistance of counsel because her attorney failed to move to vacate the judgments is
based on matters outside the record and therefore is not reviewable on direct appeal (see People v
Rodriguez, 59 AD3d 173, 173-174 [2009], lv denied 12 NY3d 858 [2009]). Contrary to
defendant's further contention, the sentence imposed with respect to both appeals is legal, and her
challenge to the severity of the sentence in each appeal is foreclosed by her valid waiver of the
right to appeal (see People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 256 [2006]). Present Scudder, P.J., Smith,
Centra, Lindley and Gorski, JJ.