People v. Barfield

Sep 30, 2005
Versions:21 A.D.3d 1396
802 N.Y.S.2d 820

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Onondaga County (John J. Brunetti, A.J.), entered May 12, 2003. The judgment convicted defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of robbery in the first degree.

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed.

Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon his plea of guilty of robbery in the first degree (Penal Law § 160.15 [3]). By failing to move to withdraw his plea of guilty or to vacate the judgment of conviction, defendant failed to preserve for our review his challenge to the factual sufficiency of the plea allocution (see People v Lopez, 71 NY2d 662, 665 [1988]; People v Scott, 15 AD3d 883 [2005], lv denied 4 NY3d 856 [2005]). In any event, we note that Supreme Court‘s duty to make further inquiry is not triggered solely by the failure of defendant to recite every element of the crime to which he pleaded guilty (see Lopez, 71 NY2d at 666 n 2; Scott, 15 AD3d at 884). We reject the further contention of defendant that he was unlawfully arrested in his home in violation of Payton v New York (445 US 573 [1980]), and that the court therefore should have suppressed his statements to the police as the fruits of that unlawful arrest. The police officers had obtained a search warrant for defendant‘s home and, “[s]ince the requirements for a search warrant were satisfied, there was no constitutional infirmity in the failure of the police to also secure an arrest warrant” (People v Lee, 205 AD2d 708, 709 [1994], lv denied 84 NY2d 828 [1994]; see People v Battista, 197 AD2d 486, 487 [1993], lv denied 83 NY2d 869 [1994]; People v Tondryk, 176 AD2d 1194 [1991], lv denied 79 NY2d 833 [1991]). Also contrary to the contention of defendant, the suppression court did not err in crediting the testimony of the police officers over that of defendant and codefendant (see generally People v Prochilo, 41 NY2d 759, 761 [1977]; People v Muldrow, 273 AD2d 814, 815 [2000], lv denied 95 NY2d 891 [2000]; People v Becker, 154 AD2d 927 [1989], lv denied 75 NY2d 767 [1989]). We have considered defendant‘s remaining contentions and conclude that they are without merit.

Present—Pigott, Jr., P.J., Green, Gorski, Smith and Lawton, JJ.