People v Bouck |
2017 NY Slip Op 06680 [153 AD3d 1522] |
September 28, 2017 |
Appellate Division, Third Department |
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v David Bouck, Appellant. |
G. Scott Walling, Queensbury, for appellant.
Robert M. Carney, District Attorney, Schenectady (Tracey A. Brunecz of counsel), for respondent.
Mulvey, J. Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Schenectady County (Sypnewski, J.), rendered September 18, 2015, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crimes of failure to register or verify as a sex offender and possessing a sexual performance by a child.
In satisfaction of a 10-count indictment, defendant pleaded guilty to the crimes of failure to
register or verify as a sex offender and possessing a sexual performance of a child and waived his
right to appeal. Pursuant to the terms of the plea agreement, defendant would be sentenced, as a
second felony offender, to consecutive prison terms of 1 to 3 years and 1
We are unpersuaded by defendant's contention that County Court abused its discretion [*2]in imposing an enhanced sentence without first permitting defendant to withdraw his plea. The record belies defendant's contention that the condition that he be truthful with the Probation Department was not part of the plea agreement. County Court explicitly advised defendant of such condition during the plea colloquy, and defendant acknowledged that he understood the consequences in the event he failed to comply with that condition. As the court "informed [defendant] at the time of his plea that it could impose a different sentence if he failed to meet [the] specified condition[ ]," it was free to impose the enhanced sentence without affording defendant an opportunity to withdraw his plea (People v Kinch, 15 AD3d 780, 781 [2005]; see People v Coffey, 77 AD3d 1202, 1203-1204 [2010], lv denied 18 NY3d 882 [2012]; People v Faulkner, 54 AD3d 1134, 1135 [2008], lv denied 11 NY3d 854 [2008]).
To the extent that defendant contends that he did not receive the effective assistance of counsel, the alleged deficiencies on the part of defense counsel do not implicate the voluntariness of the plea and, therefore, are precluded by the unchallenged waiver of the right to appeal (see People v Mahon, 148 AD3d 1303, 1303 [2017]; People v White, 145 AD3d 1324, 1325 [2016]). Finally, given the basis upon which defendant moved to withdraw his plea, we find no error in County Court summarily denying the motion without further scrutiny to determine the existence of a legitimate question as to the voluntariness of defendant's plea (see People v Brown, 14 NY3d 113, 118 [2010]; People v Farnsworth, 140 AD3d 1538, 1540 [2016]).
Peters, P.J., Egan Jr., Devine and Pritzker, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.