People v McIlwain, 2017 NY Slip Op 05972 [153 AD3d 553]

August 2, 2017

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Jamal McIlwain, Appellant.

Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, NY, for appellant.

Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Amy Appelbaum 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 September 2, 2014, 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 Lopez , 6 NY3d 248 , 256 [2006]; People v Brown , 122 AD3d 133 [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]). Eng, P.J., Hall, Austin, Duffy and Connolly, JJ., concur..