People v Chambers, 2015 NY Slip Op 01285 [125 AD3d 785]

February 11, 2015

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Steven Chambers, Appellant.

Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (David P. Greenberg of counsel), for appellant.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano of counsel; Kristen Lasak on the brief), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Aloise, J.), imposed August 16, 2012, 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 Pressley , 116 AD3d 794 [2014]) and, thus, does not preclude review of his claim that his sentence was excessive. However, contrary to the defendant’s contention, the sentence imposed was not excessive ( see People v Suitte , 90 AD2d 80 [1982]). Eng, P.J., Dillon, Austin, Sgroi and Maltese, JJ., concur..