People v Bajes, 2017 NY Slip Op 05233 [151 AD3d 1073]

June 28, 2017

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Basheer Bajes, Appellant.

Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, NY (Tammy E. Linn of counsel), for appellant.

Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Victor Barall of counsel; Robert Ho on the memorandum), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Arriaga, J.), imposed July 28, 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 , 267 [2011]; People v Brown , 122 AD3d 133 , 137 [2014]; People v Johnson , 109 AD3d 1004 [2013]) 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., Hall, LaSalle, Connolly and Brathwaite Nelson, JJ., concur..