People v Smith
2013 NY Slip Op 02098 [104 AD3d 960]
March 27, 2013
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, April 24, 2013


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Shamel Smith, Appellant.

[*1] Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y., for appellant.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano and Merri Turk Lasky of counsel; Jonathan V. Brewer on the memorandum), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a resentence of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Chin Brandt, J.), imposed January 14, 2011, on the ground that the resentence was excessive.

Ordered that the resentence is affirmed.

The defendant's purported waiver of his right to appeal was invalid (see People v Bradshaw, 18 NY3d 257, 265 [2011]; People v Hernandez, 96 AD3d 783 [2012]) and, thus, does not preclude review of his excessive sentence claim. However, the resentence imposed was not excessive (see People v Suitte, 90 AD2d 80 [1982]). Eng, P.J., Mastro, Dillon, Lott and Miller, JJ., concur.