| People v Adames |
| 2019 NY Slip Op 04962 [173 AD3d 1058] |
| June 19, 2019 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
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| The People of the State of New York,Respondent, v Reinardo Adames, Also Known as Tito,Appellant. |
Matthew Muraskin, Port Jefferson, NY, for appellant.
Madeline Singas, Mineola, NY (Kevin C. King and Jared A. Chester of counsel), forrespondent.
Appeals by the defendant from two judgments of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (RobertA. Schwartz, J.), both rendered August 17, 2017, convicting him of attempted operating as amajor trafficker under indictment No. 443/17, and criminal possession of a controlled substancein the second degree under indictment No. 929/17, upon his pleas of guilty, and imposingsentences.
Ordered that the judgments are affirmed.
The defendant's contention that his pleas of guilty were not knowing, voluntary, andintelligent is unpreserved for appellate review, as the defendant did not move to withdraw hispleas or otherwise raise this issue before the Supreme Court (see People v Lopez, 71NY2d 662, 665-666 [1988]). In any event, the record demonstrates that the defendant's pleaswere entered knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently (see People v Fiumefreddo, 82NY2d 536, 543 [1993]; People v Harris, 61 NY2d 9, 16-17 [1983]).
Since the only substantive argument raised on the defendant's appeals concerns thevoluntariness of his pleas, which claim survives a valid waiver of the right to appeal (seePeople v Seaberg, 74 NY2d 1, 10 [1989]), we need not reach the People's contentionregarding the validity of the defendant's appeal waiver (see People v Henriquez, 168 AD3d 876 [2019]; People v Bernard, 155 AD3d 1059[2017]). Chambers, J.P., Miller, LaSalle and Christopher, JJ., concur.