| People v Keene |
| 2018 NY Slip Op 02651 [160 AD3d 897] |
| April 18, 2018 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
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| The People of the State of New York,Respondent, v Wesley M. Keene, Appellant. |
Laurette D. Mulry, Riverhead, NY (Alfred J. Cicale of counsel), for appellant.
Timothy D. Sini, District Attorney, Riverhead, NY (Edward A. Bannan of counsel), forrespondent.
Appeals by the defendant from two judgments of the County Court, Suffolk County (John B.Collins, J.), both rendered August 4, 2015, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlledsubstance in the third degree under indictment No. 2455-14, and robbery in the third degreeunder indictment No. 971-15, upon his pleas of guilty, and imposing sentences.
Ordered that the judgments are affirmed.
The defendant's purported waiver of his right to appeal was invalid (see People v Bradshaw, 18 NY3d257, 264 [2011]; People vWeber, 153 AD3d 946 [2017]; People v Flores, 139 AD3d 753 [2016]; People v Brown, 122 AD3d 133[2014]) and, thus, does not preclude review of his claims that the sentences imposed should bereduced. However, the sentences imposed were not excessive (see People v Suitte, 90AD2d 80 [1982]), and we decline to reduce them in the exercise of our interest of justicejurisdiction. Rivera, J.P., Roman, Hinds-Radix and Christopher, JJ., concur.