PEOPLE v. SMITH (2020)

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Franklin County (Main Jr., J.), rendered October 22, 2018, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of robbery in the first degree.

In satisfaction of a four-count indictment stemming from the robbery of a liquor store, defendant pleaded guilty to robbery in the first degree and agreed to waive his right to appeal. He was sentenced as a second felony offender, in accordance with the plea agreement, to a prison term of 20 years, followed by five years of postrelease supervision, to be served consecutively with a prior undischarged sentence. Defendant appeals.

Defendant's only contentions on appeal are that the waiver of the right to appeal was invalid and that the plea was not knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently entered. Regardless of whether the appeal waiver is valid, defendant's challenge to the voluntariness of the guilty plea would survive any such waiver (see People v. Simon, 166 A.D.3d 1075, 1076, 86 N.Y.S.3d 333 [2018]). Defendant's challenge to the voluntariness of the plea, however, is unpreserved for our review as the record does not reflect that an appropriate postallocution motion was made and the narrow exception to the preservation rule is not implicated by any statements made during the plea colloquy (see People v. Gonzalez, 184 A.D.3d 899, 899, 123 N.Y.S.3d 549 [2020]; People v. Berkman, 184 A.D.3d 898, 898, 123 N.Y.S.3d 548 [2020]; People v. Martin, 179 A.D.3d 1385, 1386–1387, 114 N.Y.S.3d 889 [2020]). As such, the judgment of conviction will not be disturbed.

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.

Mulvey, J.

Lynch, J.P., Devine, Pritzker and Colangelo, JJ., concur.