People v Lopez, 2019 NY Slip Op 00306 [168 AD3d 879]

January 16, 2019

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Rodolfo V. Lopez, Appellant.

Janet E. Sabel, New York, NY (Justine M. Luongo and Ronald Alfano of counsel), for appellant.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (John M. Castellano and Johnnette Traill of counsel; Lorrie A. Zinno on the memorandum), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Suzanne Melendez, J.), imposed October 17, 2016, upon his plea of guilty (Dorothy Chin Brandt, J.), 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 because the Supreme Court did not adequately explain the nature of the rights being waived ( see People v Jackson , 166 AD3d 649 [2018]; People v Chambers , 142 AD3d 672 [2016]; People v Brown , 122 AD3d 133 , 140 [2014]) 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]). Rivera, J.P., Hinds-Radix, Brathwaite Nelson and Iannacci, JJ., concur..