People v Fuller
2018 NY Slip Op 05194 [163 AD3d 715]
July 11, 2018
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, August 29, 2018


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

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Angad Singh of counsel), for appellant.

Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Rhea A. Grob ofcounsel; Robert Ho on the memorandum), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court,Kings County (Matthew Sciarrino, Jr., J.), imposed July 8, 2016, upon his plea of guilty, on theground that the sentence was excessive.

Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.

The defendant's purported waiver of his right to appeal was invalid (see People v Bradshaw, 18 NY3d257, 264 [2011]; People vLittle, 127 AD3d 1235, 1235-1236 [2015]; People v Brown, 122 AD3d 133, 137 [2014]). In light of thedefendant's age, lack of experience with the criminal justice system, and mental health history,the Supreme Court's limited colloquy did not ensure the defendant's understanding of thedistinction between the right to appeal and the other rights that are automatically forfeited on aplea of guilty (see People v Bradshaw, 18 NY3d at 264; People v DeMicheli, 129 AD3d743 [2015]). Thus, the waiver does not preclude review of the defendant's excessivesentence claim. However, the sentence imposed was not excessive (see People v Suitte,90 AD2d 80 [1982]). Rivera, J.P., Miller, Duffy and LaSalle, JJ., concur.


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