People v. Joucoo

<div>People v Joucoo - 2026 NY Slip Op 02044

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<nav> <ol> <li>Home</li> <li>All Court Decisions</li> <li>Decisions</li> </ol> </nav> <div> <div> <h1>People v Joucoo</h1> <p>2026 NY Slip Op 02044</p> <p>April 2, 2026</p> <p>Appellate Division, First Department</p> <p>Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.</p> <p>This decision is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.</p> </div> <div> <p>The People of the State of New York, Respondent,</p> <p>v</p> <p>Jesse Joucoo, Defendant-Appellant.</p> </div> <p>Decided and Entered: April 02, 2026</p> <p>Ind No. 2330/18|Appeal No. 6264|Case No. 2024-02558|</p> <p>Before: Manzanet-Daniels, J.P., Mendez, Pitt-Burke, Higgitt, Hagler, JJ. </p> <div> <p>Jenay Nurse Guilford, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Carola M. Beeney of counsel), for appellant.</p> <p>Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Julia Gorski of counsel), for respondent.</p> </div> <span>[*1]</span> <p>Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Abraham L. Clott, J.), entered February 23, 2024, which denied defendant's CPL 440.10 motion to vacate a judgment of conviction, same court and Justice, rendered March 28, 2019, unanimously affirmed.</p> <p>Defendant's claim that his plea counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to negotiate a plea with more favorable immigration consequences is unsupported by the record. The claim that an immigration-favorable plea could have been reached had counsel asked is speculative (<i>see People v Young,</i> 150 AD3d 429 [1st Dept 2017], <i>lv denied</i> 29 NY3d 1136 [2017]), and the evidence submitted on the motion and testimony at the hearing failed to establish any reasonable probability that the People would have made such an offer (<i>see Lafler v Cooper</i>, 566 US 156, 163-164 [2012]; <i>Young</i>, 150 AD3d 429).</p><p>THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.</p> <p>ENTERED: April 2, 2026</p> </div>

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