PEOPLE v. BROWN (2023)

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ann E. Scherzer, J.), rendered April 10, 2018, as amended July 3, 2018, convicting defendant, upon her plea of guilty, of attempted assault in the first degree, and sentencing her, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 16 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant's challenge to the voluntariness of her plea is unpreserved and we decline to review it in the interest of justice.  In any event, we find no basis for reversal.  Defendant said nothing during her plea colloquy that negated her guilt or raised a possible defense (see People v. Lopez, 71 N.Y.2d 662, 666, 529 N.Y.S.2d 465, 525 N.E.2d 5 [1988]).  The remark that defendant claims to have warranted further inquiry did not raise a justification defense, because there was no suggestion that defendant was defending anyone from the victim's imminent use of force.  On the contrary, elsewhere in defendant's factual recitation she described a premeditated attack.  Accordingly, no further inquiry by the court was necessary.