People v Bullock
2012 NY Slip Op 06306 [98 AD3d 1133]
September 26, 2012
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, October 24, 2012


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Sheron Bullock, Appellant.

[*1] Steven Banks, New York, N.Y. (Heidi Bota of counsel; Jonathan Schenker on the memorandum), for appellant.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Maria Park of counsel; Apeksha Vora on the memorandum), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from two sentences of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Firetog, J.), both imposed July 29, 2009, on the ground that the sentences were excessive.

Ordered that the sentences are affirmed.

The defendant's purported waiver of his right to appeal was invalid (see People v Bradshaw, 18 NY3d 257 [2011]; People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248 [2006]) and, thus, does not preclude review of his excessive sentence claims. However, contrary to the defendant's contentions, the sentences imposed were not excessive (see People v Suitte, 90 AD2d 80 [1982]). Mastro, A.P.J., Rivera, Eng, Leventhal and Miller, JJ., concur.