Crimes - Appeal - Preservation of Issue for Review - Challenge to Validity of Guilty Plea Unpreserved as Defendant Did Not Move to Withdraw Plea or Vacate Conviction - Exception to Preservation Requirement Not Applicable

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Diane Kiesel, J.), rendered May 17, 2022, convicting defendant, upon her plea of guilty, of robbery in the third degree, and sentencing her to three years of probation, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant's challenge to the validity of her plea is unpreserved because she did not move to withdraw her plea or vacate her conviction (see People v Williams, 27 NY3d 212, 214 [2016]). The narrow exception to the preservation requirement does not apply, as defendant had the practical ability to object to the alleged insufficiency of the colloquy and to seek relief from the sentencing court (see People v Peque, 22 NY3d 168, 182 [2013], cert denied 574 US 840 [2014]; People v Conceicao, 26 NY3d 375, 381-382 [2015]). We decline to review this claim in the interest of justice (see People v Jackson, 123 AD3d 634, 634-635 [1st Dept 2014], lv denied 25 NY3d 1202 [2015]). As an alternative holding, we reject it on the merits (see generally People v Tyrell, 22 NY3d 359, 365 [2013]; People v Harris, 61 NY2d 9, 16, 19 [1983]). Concur—Kern, J.P., Kennedy, Kapnick, Scarpulla, O'Neill Levy, JJ.