People v Armstrong, 2015 NY Slip Op 03376 [127 AD3d 1100]

April 22, 2015

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Ivan Armstrong, Appellant.

Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Barry Stendig of counsel), for appellant.

Kenneth P. Thompson, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Victor Barall of counsel; Gregory Musso on the memorandum), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Murphy, J.), imposed March 15, 2013, on the ground that the sentence was excessive.

Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.

The defendant’s waiver of his right to appeal was invalid ( see People v Bradshaw , 18 NY3d 257 , 265 [2011]; People v Rennick , 123 AD3d 1146 [2014]; People v Reyes , 121 AD3d 820 [2014]; People v Coleman , 116 AD3d 708 [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., Dillon, Leventhal, Cohen and Maltese, JJ., concur..