Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Donnino, J.), rendered March 3, 2010, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (St. George, J.), of the defendant’s motion to suppress identification testimony.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The hearing court properly declined to suppress identification
The defendant argues that the grand jury proceedings were defective because the prosecutor improperly asked the complainant leading questions regarding the perpetrator’s appearance and her identification of the defendant from a photo array, and failed to inform the grand jury that the defendant was the only one shown in the photo array with long hair and a facial scar. “[W]here defendant has by his plea admitted commission of the crime with which he was charged, his plea renders irrelevant his contention that the criminal proceedings preliminary to trial were infected with impropriety and error; his conviction rests directly on the sufficiency of his plea, not on the legal or constitutional sufficiency of any proceedings which might have led to his conviction after trial” (People v Di Raffaele, 55 NY2d 234, 240 [1982]). Therefore, by pleading guilty, the defendant forfeited judicial review of the alleged defects in the grand jury proceedings (see People v Hansen, 95 NY2d 227 [2000]; People v Nordahl, 46 AD3d 579, 580 [2007]; People v Gerber, 182 AD2d 252, 262 [1992]; see also People v Johnson, 299 AD2d 368, 369 [2002]; People v Morgan, 209 AD2d 727 [1994]). Covello, J.E, Angiolillo, Dickerson and Hall, JJ., concur.