People v Velez
2020 NY Slip Op 03550 [184 AD3d 880]
June 24, 2020
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 5, 2020


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Raymond Velez, Appellant.

Jennifer Spencer, White Plains, NY, for appellant.

Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr., District Attorney, White Plains, NY (Raffaelina Gianfrancesco and William C. Milaccio of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Larry J. Schwartz, J.), rendered August 22, 2017, convicting him of burglary in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The record does not establish that the defendant knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently waived his right to appeal (see People v Bradshaw, 18 NY3d 257 [2011]). The County Court mischaracterized the nature of the right to appeal by stating that the defendant's sentence and conviction would be final (see People v McDowell, 181 AD3d 716 [2020], citing People v Thomas, 34 NY3d 545 [2019]), and the written waiver form also stated that his conviction and sentence would be final. Thus, the purported waiver does not preclude appellate review of the defendant's excessive sentence claim.

However, the sentence imposed was not excessive (see People v Suitte, 90 AD2d 80 [1982]). Dillon, J.P., Austin, Roman, Hinds-Radix and Christopher, JJ., concur.