People v Pettiford
2020 NY Slip Op 05941 [187 AD3d 1062]
October 21, 2020
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, December 4, 2019


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 The People of the State of New York,Respondent,
v
Michael Pettiford, Appellant.

Jeffrey Scaggs, White Plains, NY, for appellant.

Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr., District Attorney, White Plains, NY (William C. Milaccio ofcounsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court,Westchester County (Barry E. Warhit, J.), imposed May 23, 2018, on the ground that thesentence was excessive.

Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.

The record demonstrates that the defendant knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently waivedhis right to appeal (see People vSanders, 25 NY3d 337, 339-342 [2015]; People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 256-257 [2006]). The defendant'svalid waiver of his right to appeal precludes appellate review of his contentions that the SupremeCourt improvidently exercised its discretion in declining to grant him youthful offendertreatment, and that the sentence imposed was excessive (see People v Pacherille, 25 NY3d 1021, 1024 [2015]; People v Moronta, 178 AD3d 955[2019]; People v Lafontant, 160AD3d 662 [2018]). Dillon, J.P., Austin, Roman, Hinds-Radix and Christopher, JJ.,concur.


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