People v Hernandez
2020 NY Slip Op 07589 [189 AD3d 1263]
December 16, 2020
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, February 3, 2021


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 The People of the State of New York,Respondent,
v
Angel Hernandez, Appellant.

Janet E. Sabel, New York, NY (Jose David Rodriguez Gonzalez of counsel), forappellant.

Melinda Katz, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (Danielle S. Fenn of counsel; Lorrie A.Zinno on the memorandum), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court,Queens County (Leslie Leach, J.), imposed October 27, 2017, upon his plea of guilty, on theground that the sentence 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, 340-342 [2015]; People v Pettiford, 187 AD3d 1062 [2020]) The defendant's validwaiver of his right to appeal precludes appellate review of his contention that the sentenceimposed was excessive (see People vMonk, 186 AD3d 623, 624 [2020]) Mastro, J.P., Miller, Duffy, LaSalle and Wooten, JJ.,concur.


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