PEOPLE v. MAHONEY (2016)

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Ulster County (Williams, J.), rendered July 2, 2014, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of burglary in the third degree (two counts).

In satisfaction of an indictment charging seven counts of burglary in the third degree, defendant pleaded guilty to two of the counts with the understanding that he would be sentenced to concurrent prison terms of 21/313 to 7 years. Defendant waived his right to appeal as part of the plea bargain. After reviewing the presentence report, County Court informed defendant that it would not impose the agreed-upon sentence and stated that it would instead impose consecutive prison terms of 21/313 to 7 years and 2 to 6 years. Defendant declined the opportunity to withdraw his plea, and County Court sentenced him to the consecutive terms. Defendant now appeals.

Although defendant's challenge to the enhanced sentence “survives [his] waiver of appeal, the record does not reflect that [he] moved to withdraw his plea or vacate the judgment of conviction; accordingly, this issue is unpreserved for our review” (People v. Johnson, 97 A.D.3d 990, 991 [2012] [internal citation omitted]; see People v. Adams, 104 A.D.3d 1020, 1020 [2013] ). In any event, “[w]here a court determines that the negotiated sentence is not appropriate, it may impose an enhanced sentence if it first offers the defendant the opportunity to withdraw his or her plea” (People v. Sanchez, 87 A.D.3d 1226, 1226 [2011], lv denied 18 N.Y.3d 928 [2012]; accord People v. Mattucci, 92 A.D.3d 1029, 1029–1030 [2012], lv denied 19 N.Y.3d 964 [2012] ). Based upon its review of the presentence report, among other factors, County Court concluded that the negotiated sentence was no longer appropriate, explained such fact to defendant and provided him with an opportunity to withdraw his plea, which he declined to do. As such, were this issue before us, we would find that County Court did not abuse its discretion in imposing an enhanced sentence (see People v. Adams, 104 A.D.3d at 1021, 960 N.Y.S.2d 663; People v. Mattucci, 92 A.D.3d at 1030, 937 N.Y.S.2d 727).

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.