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The People, etc., respondent, v. Jesse Hoyte, appellant.
Submitted-October 6, 2010
DECISION & ORDER
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Heffernan, Jr., J.), rendered November 5, 2007, convicting him of burglary in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's contentions that his plea allocution was factually insufficient and that his plea was coerced are unpreserved for appellate review. The defendant did not move to withdraw his plea or to vacate his judgment of conviction, nor did he otherwise raise these issues before the Supreme Court (see CPL 470.05[2]; People v. Toxey, 86 N.Y.2d 725; People v. Rojas, 74 AD3d 1369; People v. Colston, 68 AD3d 1130; People v. Lopez, 34 AD3d 599; People v. Reels, 17 AD3d 488). The narrow exception to the preservation rule does not apply in this case, since the defendant's recitation of the facts underlying the crime did not cast significant doubt on his guilt or otherwise call into question the voluntariness of the plea (see People v. Lopez, 71 N.Y.2d 662, 666). In any event, the facts admitted in the defendant's plea allocution were sufficient to support the defendant's plea of guilty, and the defendant's claim that his plea was coerced is unsupported by the record (see People v. Patel, 74 AD3d 1098; People v. Colston, 68 AD3d 1130; People v. Elcine, 43 AD3d 1176; People v. Lopez, 34 AD3d 599; People v. Reels, 17 AD3d 488).
SKELOS, J.P., SANTUCCI, ANGIOLILLO, HALL and ROMAN, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Matthew G. Kiernan
Clerk of the Court
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Docket No: 2007-10538 (Ind.No. 7407 /06)
Decided: October 26, 2010
Court: Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
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