People v. Ellerbe

Inasmuch as the defendant failed to raise any objections to the sufficiency of the plea allocution or to the constitutionality of Penal Law § 70.06 in the court of first instance, he has failed to preserve these issues for appellate review as a matter of law (People v Pellegrino, 60 NY2d 636; People v Rembert, 105 AD2d 717; People v Cates, 104 AD2d 895). Nor is reversal warranted in the interest of justice. There is “no requirement for a ‘uniform mandatory catechism of pleading defendants’ ” (People v Harris, 61 NY2d 9, 16, quoting from People v Nixon, 21 NY2d 338, 353, cert denied sub nom.…