People v Alvarez, 2017 NY Slip Op 06541 [153 AD3d 1359]

September 20, 2017

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Jerry Alvarez, Appellant.

Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, NY (Anna Kou of counsel), for appellant.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, and Christopher Blira-Koessler of counsel; Lorrie A. Zinno on the memorandum), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Melendez, J., at plea; Zaro, J., at sentence), imposed August 17, 2015, upon his plea of guilty, on the ground that the sentence was excessive.

Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.

The defendant’s purported waiver of his right to appeal was invalid ( see People v Bradshaw , 18 NY3d 257 , 265 [2011]; People v Brown , 122 AD3d 133 , 138-141 [2014]) and, thus, does not preclude review of his excessive sentence claim. However, the sentence imposed was not excessive ( see People v Suitte , 90 AD2d 80 [1982]). Eng, P.J., Rivera, Cohen, Miller and LaSalle, JJ., concur..