People v Crooks
2012 NY Slip Op 05982 [98 AD3d 630]
August 15, 2012
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, September 26, 2012


The People of the State of New York,Respondent,
v
Ricardo O. Crooks, Appellant.

[*1]Leon H. Tracy, Jericho, N.Y., for appellant.

Kathleen M. Rice, District Attorney, Mineola, N.Y. (Robert A. Schwartz and CourtneyWeinberger of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Donnino, J.),rendered March 19, 2010, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the thirddegree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant's claim that he was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel because hiscounsel failed to inform him of the deportation consequences of his guilty plea, which allegedlyrendered his plea involuntary, is based on facts that are outside of the record on appeal.Accordingly, "[t]he claim should be raised in a postconviction application under CPL article 440,where the basis of the claim may be fully developed" (People v Haffiz, 19 NY3d 883, 885 [2012]; see People v Thomas, 89 AD3d964 [2011]; People v Peque, 88AD3d 1024, 1025 [2011]; People vRohlehr, 87 AD3d 603, 604 [2011]; People v Griffith, 78 AD3d 1194, 1196 [2010]). Rivera, J.P., Eng,Lott and Miller, JJ., concur.


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