People v. Valdez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Berkman, J.), rendered July 19, 2012, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 18 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s challenge to the voluntariness of his plea is unpreserved (see People v Conceicao, 26 NY3d 375, 381 [2015]), and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. As an alternative holding, we find that the plea was knowing, intelligent and voluntary. During the plea proceeding, whenever defendant made a statement that could be viewed as negating…