People v Esquilin
2021 NY Slip Op 01589 [192 AD3d 1481]
March 19, 2021
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 5, 2021


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Felix Esquilin, Appellant.

Timothy P. Donaher, Public Defender, Rochester (Benjamin L. Nelson of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Sandra Doorley, District Attorney, Rochester (Leah R. Mervine of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Monroe County (Joanne M. Winslow, J.), rendered September 13, 2016. The judgment convicted defendant, upon a plea of guilty, of assault in the first degree.

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

Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him, upon his plea of guilty, of assault in the first degree (Penal Law § 120.10 [1]). As the People correctly concede, defendant's waiver of the right to appeal is invalid. Supreme Court's oral colloquy and the written waiver of the right to appeal provided defendant with erroneous information about the scope of the waiver and failed to identify that certain rights would survive the waiver (see People v Bisono, 36 NY3d 1013, 1017-1018 [2020]; People v Thomas, 34 NY3d 545, 564-567 [2019], cert denied 589 US &mdash, 140 S Ct 2634 [2020]). Nevertheless, we conclude that the sentence is not unduly harsh or severe. Present—Smith, J.P., NeMoyer, Curran, Bannister and DeJoseph, JJ.