People v Ellis, 2017 NY Slip Op 00184 [146 AD3d 806]

January 11, 2017

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Donald Ellis, Appellant.

Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, NY (Paul Skip Laisure of counsel), for appellant.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, and Christopher Blira-Koessler of counsel; Jacob Wells on the memorandum), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Mullings, J.), imposed May 29, 2014, 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 , 265 [2011]) 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, Cohen, LaSalle and Connolly, JJ., concur..