People v Anderson
2006 NYSlipOp 09805
December 22, 2006
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
As corrected through Wednesday, February 14, 2007


The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Derrick M. Anderson, Appellant.

[*1]Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Penny M. Wolfgang, J.), rendered May 4, 2005. The judgment convicted defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of robbery in the second degree.

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

Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon a plea of guilty of robbery in the second degree (Penal Law § 160.10 [2] [a]). Defendant failed at the time of sentencing to controvert the allegations in the second felony offender statement filed by the People pursuant to CPL 400.21 and thus failed to preserve for our review his contention that he was improperly sentenced as a second felony offender (see People v Smith, 73 NY2d 961 [1989]; People v Austin, 1 AD3d 957, 957-958 [2003], lv denied 1 NY3d 594 [2004]; People v Duquin, 212 AD2d 1059 [1995]). Contrary to the contention of defendant, the narrow exception to the preservation rule does not apply (see People v Nieves, 2 NY3d 310, 315-316 [2004]; cf. People v Samms, 95 NY2d 52, 55-56 [2000]). In any event, we conclude that there was substantial compliance with CPL 400.21 (see People v Hughes, 28 AD3d 1185 [2006], lv denied 7 NY3d 790 [2006]; People v Chrysler, 260 AD2d 945 [1999]). Present—Hurlbutt, J.P., Gorski, Smith and Pine, JJ.


NYPTI Decisions © 2026 is a project of New York Prosecutors Training Institute (NYPTI) made possible by leveraging the work we've done providing online research and tools to prosecutors.

NYPTI would like to thank New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, New York State Senate's Open Legislation Project, New York State Unified Court System, New York State Law Reporting Bureau and Free Law Project for their invaluable assistance making this project possible.

Install the free RECAP extensions to help contribute to this archive. See https://free.law/recap/ for more information.