People v Pulley
2013 NY Slip Op 04483 [107 AD3d 1560]
June 14, 2013
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
As corrected through Wednesday, July 31, 2013


The People of the State of New York, Respondent, vRemeher Pulley, Appellant.

[*1]Frank H. Hiscock Legal Aid Society, Syracuse (Philip Rothschild of counsel),for defendant-appellant.

William J. Fitzpatrick, District Attorney, Syracuse (James P. Maxwell of counsel),for respondent.

Appeal from a judgment of the Onondaga County Court (William D. Walsh, J.),rendered December 15, 2009. The judgment convicted defendant, upon his plea of guilty,of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.

Memorandum: On appeal from a judgment convicting him based upon his plea ofguilty of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree (Penal Law §265.03 [1] [b]), defendant contends that his waiver of the right to appeal is unenforceableand that his agreed-upon sentence is unduly harsh and severe. We perceive no infirmityin defendant's waiver of the right to appeal. County Court adequately advised defendantduring the plea colloquy of his right to appeal, and defendant then signed a writtenwaiver of the right to appeal. The record thus establishes that defendant knowingly,voluntarily and intelligently waived the right to appeal (see generally People v Lopez,6 NY3d 248, 256 [2006]), and that valid waiver forecloses any challenge bydefendant to the severity of the sentence (see id. at 255; see generally Peoplev Lococo, 92 NY2d 825, 827 [1998]; People v Hidalgo, 91 NY2d 733, 737[1998]). Present—Scudder, P.J., Smith, Centra and Lindley, JJ.


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