THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK RESPONDENT v. EMMANUEL SHEPPARD DEFENDANT APPELLANT (2017)

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

It is hereby ORDERED that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.

Memorandum:  Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon his plea of guilty of, inter alia, two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree (Penal Law

§ 220.21 [1] ).  With respect to defendant's challenge to County Court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence, we affirm for the reasons stated in People v. Richardson (132 AD3d 1313, 1314–1315, lv denied 26 NY3d 1149).  By failing to move to withdraw his plea or to vacate the judgment of conviction, defendant failed to preserve for our review his further contentions that the plea allocution was factually insufficient (see People v. Lopez, 71 N.Y.2d 662, 665–666), and that the plea was not knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently entered (see People v. Boyden, 112 AD3d 1372, 1372–1373, lv denied 23 NY3d 960).  This case does not fall within the narrow exception to the preservation requirement inasmuch as nothing in the plea colloquy “clearly casts significant doubt upon the defendant's guilt or otherwise calls into question the voluntariness of the plea” (Lopez, 71 N.Y.2d at 666).

Mark W. Bennett

Clerk of the Court