People v Coles
2022 NY Slip Op 03830 [206 AD3d 1696]
June 10, 2022
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 3, 2022


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Dennis L. Coles, Appellant.

Timothy P. Donaher, Public Defender, Rochester (Shirley A. Gorman of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Sandra Doorley, District Attorney, Rochester (Nancy Gilligan of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Monroe County (Thomas E. Moran, J.), rendered November 6, 2017. The judgment convicted defendant upon his plea of guilty of attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.

Memorandum: On appeal from a judgment convicting him upon his plea of guilty of attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree (Penal Law §§ 110.00, 265.03 [3]), defendant contends that his waiver of the right to appeal is invalid and that his sentence is unduly harsh and severe. As the People correctly concede, because Supreme Court provided defendant with erroneous information about the scope of the waiver of the right to appeal and failed to identify that certain rights would survive that waiver, the colloquy was insufficient to ensure that the waiver was voluntary, knowing, and intelligent (see People v Thomas, 34 NY3d 545, 565-566 [2019], cert denied 589 US &mdash, 140 S Ct 2634 [2020]). Nevertheless, we conclude that the sentence is not unduly harsh or severe. Present—Smith, J.P., Centra, Lindley and Curran, JJ.