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PLEA TO A PURPORTEDLY AMENDED COUNT MUST BE VACATED BECAUSE THE COUNT HAD BEEN DISMISSED, WAIVER OF APPEAL INVALID DESPITE THE EXECUTION OF A WRITTEN WAIVER (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department determined the plea to attempted sex trafficking charged in an amended indictment count must be vacated because the count which was purportedly amended had been previously dismissed. The court further held that the waiver of appeal was invalid:

… [W]e conclude … that the court erred in eliciting defendant’s plea of guilty to attempted sex trafficking under the purported amended count 3 of the second indictment because of the previous dismissal of the underlying count… . Inasmuch as ” [a] valid and sufficient accusatory instrument is a nonwaivable jurisdictional prerequisite to a criminal prosecution’ ” … , and the court lacked authority to amend a previously dismissed count and elicit defendant’s plea thereto, the judgment of conviction … must be reversed and the plea vacated … .

We agree with defendant … that his purported waiver of the right to appeal is not valid inasmuch as “the perfunctory inquiry made by [County] Court was insufficient to establish that the court engage[d] the defendant in an adequate colloquy to ensure that the waiver of the right to appeal was a knowing and voluntary choice” … . Although “[a] detailed written waiver can supplement a court’s on-the-record explanation of what a waiver of the right to appeal entails, . . . a written waiver does not, standing alone, provide sufficient assurance that the defendant is knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily giving up his or her right to appeal”… . Here, although defendant signed such a written waiver, “the record establishes that County Court did not sufficiently explain the significance of the appeal waiver or ascertain defendant’s understanding thereof” … . We thus conclude that, “despite defendant’s execution of a written waiver of the right to appeal, he did not knowingly, intelligently or voluntarily waive his right to appeal as the record fails to demonstrate a full appreciation of the consequences of such waiver” … . People v Wilson, 2018 NY Slip Op 02060, Fourth Deptp 3-23-18

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