| People v Rossborough |
| 2012 NY Slip Op 09256 [101 AD3d 1775] |
| December 28, 2012 |
| Appellate Division, Fourth Department |
| The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Ronald D.Rossborough, Appellant. |
—[*1] Brooks Baker, District Attorney, Bath (James P. Miller of counsel), for respondent.
Appeal from a judgment of the Steuben County Court (Joseph W. Latham, J.), rendered February2, 2011. The judgment convicted defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of forgery 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 a plea of guilty of forgery in thesecond degree (Penal Law § 170.10 [1]), defendant contends that the superior court information(SCI) and waiver of indictment were jurisdictionally defective because they contain discrepancies in thedate and location of the crime charged therein. We reject that contention. Although defendant is correctthat a "valid and sufficient accusatory instrument is a nonwaivable jurisdictional prerequisite to a criminalprosecution" (People v Harper, 37 NY2d 96, 99 [1975]), an accusatory instrument isjurisdictionally defective "only if it does not effectively charge the defendant with the commission of aparticular crime" (People v Quamina, 207 AD2d 1030, 1030 [1994], lv denied 84NY2d 1014 [1994], quoting People v Iannone, 45 NY2d 589, 600 [1978]). In the case reliedupon by defendant, People v Roe (191 AD2d 844, 845 [1993]), the court determined that theSCI was jurisdictionally defective because it charged defendant with a nonexistent crime. Here,however, the SCI effectively charged defendant with the commission of a particular crime, i.e., forgeryin the second degree in violation of Penal Law § 170.10 (1). Thus, any mistake in the SCI "withrespect to date, time or place is a technical defect rather than a jurisdictional defect vital to thesufficiency of the [SCI] or the guilty plea entered thereto" (People v Cox, 275 AD2d 924, 925[2000], lv denied 95 NY2d 962 [2000] [internal quotation marks omitted]; see People v Dudley, 28 AD3d 1182,1183 [2006], lv denied 7 NY3d 788 [2006]; People v Kepple, 98 AD2d 783, 783[1983]). Because the SCI is not jurisdictionally defective, defendant's challenges to the SCI areforfeited by defendant's plea of guilty (Cox, 275 AD2d at 925), and in any event the validwaiver of the right to appeal encompasses those nonjurisdictional challenges (see People v Nichols, 32 AD3d 1316,1317 [2006], lv denied 8 NY3d 848 [2007], reconsideration denied 8 NY3d 988[2007]). Contrary to the further contention of defendant, the record establishes that he freely andvoluntarily waived indictment and consented to be prosecuted by way of an SCI (see CPL195.10, 195.20; People v Burney, 93AD3d 1334, 1334 [2012]).
In addition, we reject the contention of defendant that his guilty plea was not knowing, [*2]voluntary, or intelligent. Although his contention survives his valid waiverof the right to appeal, defendant did not move to withdraw the plea or to vacate the judgment ofconviction on that ground and thus failed to preserve that contention for our review (see People v Russell, 55 AD3d 1314,1314-1315 [2008], lv denied 11 NY3d 930 [2009]; People v Harrison, 4 AD3d 825,826 [2004], lv denied 2 NY3d 740 [2004]).
Finally, we conclude that County Court did not err in sentencing defendant as a second felonyoffender. Whether defendant committed the crime at issue on January 6, 2010 or January 30, 2010 isof no moment inasmuch as, under either date, only nine years elapsed between the date of sentencingupon his prior conviction, i.e., January 30, 2001, and the date of the instant offense (see PenalLaw § 70.06 [1] [b] [iv]). Thus, there is no basis to disturb defendant's sentence.Present—Centra, J.P., Peradotto, Lindley, Whalen and Martoche, JJ.