People v Rodriguez
2007 NY Slip Op 09921 [46 AD3d 356]
December 18, 2007
Appellate Division, First Department
As corrected through Wednesday, February 13, 2008


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
DavidRodriguez, Appellant.

[*1]Steven Banks, The Legal Aid Society, New York City (Harold V. Ferguson, Jr. ofcounsel), for appellant.

Robert T. Johnson, District Attorney, Bronx (Noah J. Chamoy of counsel), forrespondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Albert Lorenzo, J., at plea; Seth L. Marvin, J., atsentence), rendered May 19, 2006, convicting defendant of criminal sale of a controlledsubstance in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of 3½ years, unanimouslyaffirmed.

Defendant made a valid waiver of his right to appeal, which forecloses review of his presentclaim that the court should have exercised its discretion to give him a second chance to completedrug treatment, notwithstanding his conceded violation of his plea agreement (see People v Wilson, 11 AD3d206 [2004], lv denied 3 NY3d 743 [2004]). Were we to find otherwise, we wouldfind that the court properly exercised its discretion, especially since defendant immediatelyabsconded after being directed to enter a drug program, and was also arrested and convicted of anew crime (see People v Valles, 21AD3d 855 [2005], lv denied 6 NY3d 760 [2005]). Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P.,Saxe, Marlow, Catterson and Malone, JJ.


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