| People v Wilkes |
| 2018 NY Slip Op 03047 [160 AD3d 1491] |
| April 27, 2018 |
| Appellate Division, Fourth Department |
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| The People of the State of New York,Respondent, v Adifah Wilkes, Appellant. |
Michael J. Stachowski, P.C., Buffalo (Michael J. Stachowski of counsel), fordefendant-appellant.
John J. Flynn, District Attorney, Buffalo (Matthew B. Powers of counsel), forrespondent.
Appeal from a judgment of the Erie County Court (Sheila A. DiTullio, J.), rendered March15, 2017. The judgment convicted defendant, upon her plea of guilty, of criminal possession of aweapon in the second degree.
It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum: On appeal from a judgment convicting her upon her plea of guilty of criminalpossession of a weapon in the second degree (Penal Law § 265.03 [3]), defendantcontends that her plea was not knowingly, voluntarily or intelligently entered because the factualallocution negated an essential element of the crime to which she pleaded guilty. Defendant"failed to preserve that contention for our review by moving to withdraw [the] plea or to vacatethe judgment of conviction" (People vCloyd, 78 AD3d 1669, 1670 [4th Dept 2010], lv denied 16 NY3d 857 [2011]; see People v Trinidad, 23 AD3d1060, 1061 [4th Dept 2005], lv denied 6 NY3d 760 [2005]). Contrary to defendant'scontention, this case does not fall within the "rare exception to the preservation rule"(Trinidad, 23 AD3d at 1061; see People v Lopez, 71 NY2d 662, 666 [1988]).Although defendant initially stated that the gun was unloaded at the time she pointed it at thevictim, she subsequently acknowledged that she possessed both the gun and the ammunition(see § 265.00 [15]; see generally People v Wilson, 252 AD2d 241,245 [4th Dept 1998]), and thus her factual allocution did not negate an essential element of thecrime. In any event, we note that County Court conducted "further inquiry to ensure thatdefendant understood the nature of the charge and that the plea was intelligently entered" (People v Glasper, 46 AD3d 1401,1402 [4th Dept 2007], lv denied 10 NY3d 863 [2008]). Present—Centra, J.P.,Carni, Lindley and Curran, JJ.