People v Hussain, 2024 NY Slip Op 04572 [230 AD3d 1336]

September 25, 2024

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Jawad Hussain, Appellant.

Patricia Pazner, New York, NY (Cynthia Colt of counsel), for appellant.

Melinda Katz, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (Charles T. Pollak of counsel; Miles Palminteri on the memorandum), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Kenneth Holder, J.), imposed on March 29, 2022, upon his plea of guilty, on the ground that the sentence was excessive.

Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.

The record demonstrates that the defendant knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently waived his right to appeal ( see People v Lopez , 6 NY3d 248 , 256 [2006]). The defendant’s valid waiver of his right to appeal precludes appellate review of his contention that the sentence imposed was excessive ( see id . at 255-256; People v Lowe , 216 AD3d 670 , 671 [2023]). Brathwaite Nelson, J.P., Wooten, Voutsinas and Love, JJ., concur..