People v Rizzo, 2017 NY Slip Op 00325 [146 AD3d 904]

January 18, 2017

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Michael Rizzo, Appellant.

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

Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Victor Barall of counsel; Jenna Tersteegen on the memorandum), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Gubbay, J.), imposed December 16, 2013, 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 Bradshaw , 18 NY3d 257 , 267 [2011]; People v Lopez , 6 NY3d 248 , 257 [2006]; People v Brown , 122 AD3d 133 , 145 [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., Austin, Roman, Maltese and Duffy, JJ., concur..