People v Rivera

2012 NY Slip Op 05557 [97 AD3d 704]

July 11, 2012

Appellate Division, Second Department

As corrected through Wednesday, August 22, 2012

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

—[*1]Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (David P. Greenberg of counsel), for appellant.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, DanielBresnahan, and Tina Grillo of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court,Queens County (Cooperman, J.), imposed June 24, 2009, on the ground that the sentence wasexcessive.

Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.

The defendant's valid waiver of his right to appeal precludes appellate review of his claimthat his sentence was excessive (seePeople v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 258 [2006]). Mastro, A.P.J., Angiolillo, Belen and Austin,JJ., concur.