David J. Pajak, Alden, for defendant-appellant.

Lawrence Friedman, District Attorney, Batavia (Shirley A. Gorman of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from a judgment of the Genesee County Court (Charles N. Zambito, J.), rendered January 5, 2018. The judgment convicted defendant upon a plea of guilty of course of sexual conduct against a child in the first degree (two counts).

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.

Memorandum: On appeal from a judgment convicting him upon his plea of guilty of two counts of course of sexual conduct against a child in the first degree (Penal Law § 130.75 [1] [b]), defendant contends that, although he validly waived his right to appeal, he may nevertheless seek a sentence reduction in the interest of justice (see CPL 470.15 [6] [b]). We reject that contention inasmuch as a valid waiver of the right to appeal encompasses a challenge to the severity of the sentence and also "includes waiver of the right to invoke [this Court's] interest-of-justice jurisdiction to reduce the sentence" (People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 255 [2006]). Present—Centra, J.P., NeMoyer, Troutman, Winslow and Bannister, JJ.