People v Jacoby, 2024 NY Slip Op 05709 [232 AD3d 1284]
November 15, 2024
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Joshua Jacoby, Appellant.
The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, Inc., Buffalo (Susan Hutchison of counsel), for defendant-appellant.
Michael J. Keane, Acting District Attorney, Buffalo (Jerry Marti of counsel), for respondent.
Appeal from a judgment of the Erie County Court (Suzanne Maxwell Barnes, J.), rendered November 30, 2021. The judgment convicted defendant upon his plea of guilty of assault in the first degree (two counts), robbery in the first degree, assault in the third degree and false personation.
It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum: On appeal from a judgment convicting him upon his guilty plea of, inter alia, two counts of assault in the first degree (Penal Law § 120.10 [1], [2]) and one count of robbery in the first degree (§ 160.15 [3]), defendant contends that his waiver of the right to appeal is invalid and that his sentence is unduly harsh and severe. Even assuming, arguendo, that defendant’s waiver of the right to appeal is invalid ( see generally People v Thomas , 34 NY3d 545 , 565-566 [2019], cert denied 589 US —, 140 S Ct 2634 [2020]) and thus does not preclude our review of his challenge to the severity of the sentence ( see People v Baker , 158 AD3d 1296 , 1296 [4th Dept 2018], lv denied 31 NY3d 1011 [2018]), we perceive no basis in the record to exercise our power to modify the sentence as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice ( see CPL 470.15 [6] [b]). Present—Lindley, J.P., Bannister, Ogden, Nowak and DelConte, JJ..