Opinion
2014-10-16
The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Yucef COLLEY, Defendant–Appellant.
Richard M. Greenberg, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York (Anant Kumar of counsel), for appellant. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Richard Nahas of counsel), for respondent.
Richard M. Greenberg, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York (Anant Kumar of counsel), for appellant.Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Richard Nahas of counsel), for respondent.
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Gregory Carro, J.), rendered January 16, 2013, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal sexual act in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of 10 years, with 20 years' postrelease supervision, unanimously affirmed.
The court properly denied defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea. There is nothing in the record to cast doubt on the voluntariness of the plea. The plea allocution minutes establish that the court advised defendant of the 20–year postrelease supervision component of his sentence, and that defense counsel had thoroughly explained to her client the terms of the plea, including the PRS term, in conversations both in prison and at court. Accordingly, defendant's vague complaint that PRS had not been explained to him with sufficient precision did not warrant a hearing, and the court's limited inquiry was permissible ( see People v. Mitchell, 21 N.Y.3d 964, 967, 970 N.Y.S.2d 919, 993 N.E.2d 405 [2013]; People v. Frederick, 45 N.Y.2d 520, 410 N.Y.S.2d 555, 382 N.E.2d 1332 [1978] ), given that the consequences of violating PRS are merely collateral (People v. Monk, 21 N.Y.3d 27, 32, 966 N.Y.S.2d 739, 989 N.E.2d 1 [2013] ). Defendant made a valid waiver of his right to appeal ( see People v. Caviness, 95 A.D.3d 622, 943 N.Y.S.2d 882 [1st Dept.2012], lv. denied 19 N.Y.3d 995, 951 N.Y.S.2d 471, 975 N.E.2d 917 [2012] ), which forecloses review of his remaining arguments. Regardless of whether defendant made a valid waiver of his right to appeal, we perceive no basis for reducing the term of postrelease supervision. MAZZARELLI, J.P., ACOSTA, DeGRASSE, MANZANET–DANIELS, JJ., concur.