People v. Terry

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (O’Brien, J.), rendered June 13, 2012, convicting him of possessing a sexual performance by a child, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The record was insufficient to insure that the defendant grasped the distinction between the trial rights automatically forfeited upon a plea of guilty and the right to appeal, especially since there is no written waiver of the right to appeal in the record (see People v Moyett, 7 NY3d 892 [2006]; People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 256 [2006];…