People v Drain, 2017 NY Slip Op 09155 [156 AD3d 900]

December 27, 2017

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Lanod Drain, Appellant.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Anna Kou of counsel), for appellant.

Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Amy Appelbaum 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 (D’Emic, J.), imposed March 16, 2016, 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 Brown , 122 AD3d 133 [2014]; People v Sanders , 25 NY3d 337 [2015]) 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., Chambers, Sgroi, Maltese and Connolly, JJ., concur..