People v. Sease

People v Sease (2019 NY Slip Op 08712)
People v Sease
2019 NY Slip Op 08712
Decided on December 4, 2019
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
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Decided on December 4, 2019 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.
JOSEPH J. MALTESE
BETSY BARROS
VALERIE BRATHWAITE NELSON
ANGELA G. IANNACCI, JJ.

2018-07418
(Ind. No. 6530/17)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent,

v

Jerral Sease, appellant.




Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Morgan J. Dennehy of counsel; Robert Ho on the memorandum), for respondent.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Alice R. B. Cullina of counsel), for appellant.



DECISION & ORDER

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Evelyn J. Laporte, J.), imposed May 14, 2018, upon his plea of guilty, on the ground that the sentence was excessive.

ORDERED that the sentence is affirmed.

The defendant's plea of guilty included a waiver of his right to appeal. Contrary to the defendant's contention, the record amply demonstrates that he knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently waived his right to appeal (see People v Sanders, 25 NY3d 337, 341-342; People v Bradshaw, 18 NY3d 257, 264; People v Ramos, 7 NY3d 737, 738; People v Batista, 167 AD3d 69; People v Howard, 160 AD3d 897; People v Brown, 122 AD3d 133).

Where, as in this case, the defendant has entered "into a guilty plea that includes a valid waiver of the right to appeal, that waiver includes any challenge to the severity of the sentence" (People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 256). Accordingly, the defendant's valid waiver of his right to appeal precludes appellate review of his contention that the sentence imposed was excessive (see id. at 256).

RIVERA, J.P., MALTESE, BARROS, BRATHWAITE NELSON and IANNACCI, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court