People v Budden
2010 NY Slip Op 07183 [77 AD3d 672]
October 5, 2010
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, December 15, 2010


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
LeonardBudden, Appellant.

[*1]Arza Feldman, Uniondale, N.Y., for appellant.

Kathleen M. Rice, District Attorney, Mineola, N.Y. (Laurie K. Gibbons and Cristin N. Connell ofcounsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Donnino, J.),rendered May 27, 2009, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, uponhis plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant's valid waiver of his right to appeal (see People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 257 [2006]; People vCallahan, 80 NY2d 273 [1992]), precludes review of his challenge to the factual sufficiency of theplea allocution (see People v Murphy, 55AD3d 930 [2008]; People vMcCarthy, 53 AD3d 589 [2008]; People v Nash, 38 AD3d 684 [2007]).

To the extent that the defendant is claiming that his plea was not knowing, voluntary, and intelligent,this issue is unpreserved for appellate review since he did not move to withdraw his plea of guilty or tovacate the judgment of conviction (see Peoplev Johnson, 73 AD3d 951 [2010]; People v Murphy, 55 AD3d 930 [2008]; People v Rodriguez, 51 AD3d 1043[2008]), and the case does not fall within the narrow exception to the preservation requirement (seePeople v Lopez, 71 NY2d 662, 666 [1988]). In any event, the record demonstrates that thedefendant's plea of guilty was entered knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently (see People v Rodriguez-Ovalles, 74 AD3d1368 [2010]; see also People v Pons, 68 NY2d 264, 267 [1986]). Skelos, J.P.,Santucci, Angiolillo, Hall and Roman, JJ., concur.


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