People v Howard, 2017 NY Slip Op 08688 [156 AD3d 724]

December 13, 2017

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Curtis Howard, Appellant.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Sean H. Murray of counsel), for appellant.

Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Morgan J. Dennehy 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 (Murphy, J.), imposed May 13, 2016, 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 Kupershmidt , 152 AD3d 797 [2017]; People v Brown , 122 AD3d 133 [2014]) and, therefore, does not preclude review of his excessive sentence claim. However, the sentence was not excessive ( see People v Suitte , 90 AD2d 80 [1982]). Eng, P.J., Chambers, Sgroi, Maltese and Connolly, JJ., concur..