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DEFENDANT’S PLEA COLLOQUY NEGATED AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT (JURAT) OF HIS PERJURY CONVICTIONS; PLEA VACATED (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, vacating the plea to perjury, determined defendant’s plea colloquy negated an essential element of the crime:

… [W]e conclude that defendant is entitled to challenge the plea because he made statements during the colloquy that negated an essential element of the crime … . “A person is guilty of perjury in the third degree when he [or she] swears falsely” … . “A person ‘swears falsely’ when he [or she] intentionally makes a false statement which he [or she] does not believe to be true . . . under oath in a subscribed written instrument” … . An “‘[o]ath’ includes an affirmation and every other mode authorized by law of attesting to the truth of that which is stated” … . The document in question was captioned as an “Affidavit of Financial Information.” The preamble begins with the representation that defendant, “being duly sworn, deposes and says the following under penalty of perjury.” The following statement is included above defendant’s signature: “I have carefully read the foregoing statements contained in this Affidavit of Financial Information. They are true and correct.” The document includes defendant’s signature and a jurat completed by defendant’s attorney in July 2017 … . The same is true for the amended affidavit signed in August 2017.

During the plea allocution, defendant explained that he received the affidavit from his attorney by e-mail “and then [he] filled it out on e-mail as well and sent it right back to him.” No statement was made that the attorney actually administered an oath to defendant before he signed the affidavits. Given defendant’s limited explanation of the affidavit sequence, County Court was obligated to further inquire as to the oath element before accepting the plea … . People v Marone, 2022 NY Slip Op 03543, Third Dept 6-2-22

Practice Point: Here the defendant’s plea colloquy negated an essential element of the crime. The judge should have inquired further before accepting the plea. Plea vacated.

 

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