| People v Smith |
| 2023 NY Slip Op 01397 [214 AD3d 1339] |
| March 17, 2023 |
| Appellate Division, Fourth Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| The People of the State of New York,
Respondent, v Gerald L. Smith, Appellant. |
Erik Teifke, Acting Public Defender, Rochester (Jane I. Yoon of counsel), for defendant-appellant.
Sandra Doorley, District Attorney, Rochester (Nancy Gilligan of counsel), for respondent.
Appeal from a judgment of the Monroe County Court (Vincent M. Dinolfo, J.), rendered January 4, 2018. The judgment convicted defendant upon his plea of guilty of attempted burglary 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 burglary in the second degree (Penal Law §§ 110.00, 140.25 [2]), defendant contends that his plea was involuntary. As a preliminary matter, we note that, even assuming, arguendo, that defendant's waiver of the right to appeal is valid, defendant's contention survives that waiver (see People v Tchiyuka, 169 AD3d 1398, 1398 [4th Dept 2019]). Nonetheless, defendant's contention relies on matters outside the record and thus is not properly before us on his direct appeal and must be pursued by way of a motion pursuant to CPL article 440 (see generally People v Jackson, 153 AD3d 1605, 1606 [4th Dept 2017], lv denied 30 NY3d 1106 [2018]). Present—Whalen, P.J., Lindley, Curran, Bannister and Montour, JJ.