People v. Washington

The defendant’s contention that his plea of guilty should not have been accepted by the court without conducting a further inquiry is unpreserved for appellate review and we decline to reach it in the exercise of our interest of justice jurisdiction. Unlike an allocution that actually negates an essential element of the crime pleaded to, the failure of a pleading defendant to recite every element of the crime does not necessarily suggest that the plea of guilty is improvident or baseless so as to trigger a duty on the part of the court to inquire further (see, People v Lopez, 71 NY2d 662,…