People v Bohn, 2024 NY Slip Op 05685 [232 AD3d 1253]
November 15, 2024
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Frederick Bohn, Appellant.
Julie Cianca, Public Defender, Rochester (Clea Weiss of counsel), for defendant-appellant.
Sandra Doorley, District Attorney, Rochester (Aeron Schwallie of counsel), for respondent.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Monroe County (Thomas E. Moran, J.), rendered July 27, 2020. The judgment convicted defendant upon his plea of guilty of manslaughter in the first degree.
It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum: On appeal from a judgment convicting him upon his plea of guilty of manslaughter in the first degree (Penal Law § 125.20 [1]), defendant contends that his waiver of the right to appeal is invalid and his sentence is unduly harsh and severe. Even assuming, arguendo, that defendant’s waiver of the right to appeal is invalid ( see People v Thomas , 34 NY3d 545 , 565-566 [2019], cert denied 589 US —, 140 S Ct 2634 [2020]; People v Ahmed , 188 AD3d 1626 , 1626 [4th Dept 2020]) and thus does not preclude our review of his challenge to the severity of the sentence ( see People v Baker , 158 AD3d 1296 , 1296 [4th Dept 2018], lv denied 31 NY3d 1011 [2018]), we conclude that the sentence is not unduly harsh or severe. Present—Whalen, P.J., Lindley, Ogden, DelConte and Keane, JJ..