PEOPLE v. UMANZOR (2025)

DECISION & ORDER

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Chris Ann Kelley, J.), rendered July 22, 2021, convicting him of rape in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant's challenge to the validity of his plea of guilty is unpreserved for appellate review because the defendant did not move to withdraw his plea or otherwise object to its entry prior to the court imposing sentence (see People v. Williams, 27 N.Y.3d 212, 214, 32 N.Y.S.3d 17, 51 N.E.3d 528;  People v. Lee, 225 A.D.3d 788, 788–789, 205 N.Y.S.3d 494).  In any event, the record demonstrates that the defendant's plea of guilty was knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently entered.

DILLON, J.P., CHRISTOPHER, VENTURA and MCCORMACK, JJ., concur.