People v Watts, 2019 NY Slip Op 08718 [178 AD3d 740]

December 4, 2019

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Russell Watts, Appellant.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Benjamin Welikson of counsel), for appellant.

John M. Ryan, Acting District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, and Michelle M. Yong of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Barry Schwartz, J.), imposed September 27, 2017, upon his plea of guilty, on the ground that the sentence was excessive.

Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.

The defendant validly waived his right to appeal ( see People v Sanders , 25 NY3d 337 [2015]; People v Robinson , 167 AD3d 942 [2018]; People v Batista , 167 AD3d 69 [2018]). The defendant’s valid waiver of his right to appeal precludes appellate review of his contention that the sentence imposed was excessive ( see People v Lopez , 6 NY3d 248 [2006]). Mastro, J.P., Leventhal, Miller, Duffy and LaSalle, JJ., concur..