PEOPLE v. HILL (2024)

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.

The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Maurice HILL, Defendant–appellant.

3003

Decided: November 12, 2024

Manzanet–Daniels, J.P., Pitt–Burke, Rosado, O'Neill Levy, Michael, JJ.

Jenay Nurse Guilford, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Benjamin Wiener of counsel), for appellant. Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Andrew H. Chung of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Melissa Jackson, J.), rendered June 2, 2022, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a conditional discharge for a period of three years, unanimously dismissed.

Defendant, currently a fugitive, having absconded in an unrelated case, is not presently available to obey the mandate of the court (see People v. Taveras, 10 N.Y.3d 227, 232, 855 N.Y.S.2d 417, 885 N.E.2d 181 [2008]; People v. De Los Dios, 143 A.D.3d 419, 38 N.Y.S.3d 417 [1st Dept. 2016]; People v. Law, 12 A.D.3d 192, 783 N.Y.S.2d 812 [1st Dept. 2004]). Were we not dismissing the appeal, we would affirm, concluding that defendant's valid waiver of his right to appeal barred his claims, which, in any event, are unavailing.

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