People v Gentle, 2017 NY Slip Op 07616 [155 AD3d 651]

November 1, 2017

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Leon Gentle, Appellant.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Rebecca J. Gannon of counsel), for appellant.

Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Solomon Neubort of counsel; Daniel Morales on the memorandum), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Ingram, J.), imposed August 17, 2016, on the ground that the sentence is 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 , 264 [2011]; People v Little , 127 AD3d 1235 , 1235-1236 [2015]; People v Brown , 122 AD3d 133 [2014]), and thus, does not preclude review of his excessive sentence claim. However, contrary to the defendant’s contention, the sentence imposed was not excessive ( see People v Suitte , 90 AD2d 80 [1982]). Eng, P.J., Balkin, Hall, Duffy and Brathwaite Nelson, JJ., concur..