People v Knotts
2015 NY Slip Op 06257 [130 AD3d 943]
July 22, 2015
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, September 2, 2015


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

Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (David P. Greenberg of counsel), forappellant.

Kenneth P. Thompson, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and AmyAppelbaum of counsel; Paige Mankin on the memorandum), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the SupremeCourt, Kings County (Cyrulnik, J.), imposed November 1, 2013, upon his plea of guilty,on the ground that the sentence was excessive.

Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.

The defendant's valid waiver of his right to appeal precludes appellate review of hiscontention that the sentence imposed was excessive (see People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 255 [2006]; People v Aragon, 122 AD3d871 [2014]; People vWitherspoon, 119 AD3d 879 [2014]; People v Cruz, 111 AD3d 651 [2013]). Eng, P.J., Skelos,Roman and Maltese, JJ., concur.


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