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DEFENDANT’S PLEA ALLOCATION NEGATED AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF THE OFFENSE, PRESERVATION OF THE ERROR NOT REQUIRED, GUILTY PLEA VACATED (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing defendant’s conviction by guilty plea, determined that defendant’s plea colloquy negated an essential element of the offense (criminal contempt). An exception to the preservation requirement applied:

“[W]here a pleading defendant’s recitation of the facts of his or her offense clearly casts doubt on his or her guilt and the court makes no further inquiry, the defendant does not have to preserve a claim of fatal error in the allocution because . . . ‘the court’s attention should have been instantly drawn to the problem, and the salutary purpose of the preservation rule is arguably not jeopardized'” … . Here, defendant stated during her plea allocution that she did not intend to violate the underlying order of protection, thus negating an element of criminal contempt in the first degree… . Although County Court promptly responded and afforded defendant an opportunity to again consult with her counsel, further discussion was then held off the record. Thus, we are unable to ascertain from the record whether the court conducted the requisite further inquiry to ensure that defendant understood the elements of the crime to which she was pleading guilty and that the plea was knowing, voluntary and intelligent … . People v Busch-scardino, 2018 NY Slip Op 01218, Third Dept 2-22-18

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