People v Smith, 2022 NY Slip Op 07081 [211 AD3d 859]

December 14, 2022

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Kenneth Smith, Appellant.

Stacy E. Albin-Leone, Long Beach, NY, for appellant.

Raymond A. Tierney, District Attorney, Riverhead, NY (Rosalind C. Gray and Marion Tang of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (John B. Collins, J.), rendered January 6, 2020, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant, by his plea of guilty, forfeited his right to challenge the geographical jurisdiction of Suffolk County to prosecute the charged offense ( see People v Armstead , 122 AD3d 640 , 641 [2014]; People v De Alvarez , 59 AD3d 732 [2009]; People v Pickens , 256 AD2d 425 [1998]). Dillon, J.P., Christopher, Ford and Taylor, JJ., concur..