People v Elliott
2014 NY Slip Op 00680 [114 AD3d 698]
February 5, 2014
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 26, 2014


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
David Elliott, Appellant.

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

Zachary W. Carter, Corporation Counsel, New York, N.Y. (Janet Zaleon of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from an amended sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County (D'Emic, J.), dated July 29, 2011, revoking a sentence of probation previously imposed by the same court, upon a finding that he violated a condition thereof, after a hearing, and imposing a term of imprisonment upon his previous conviction of criminal contempt in the first degree, on the ground that the amended sentence is excessive.

Ordered that the amended sentence is affirmed.

The defendant's purported waiver of the right to appeal was invalid (see People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 257 [2006]; People v Floyd, 112 AD3d 963 [2d Dept 2013]), and, thus, does not preclude review of his excessive sentence claim. However, contrary to the defendant's contention, the amended sentence imposed was not excessive (see People v Suitte, 90 AD2d 80 [1982]). Mastro, J.P., Hall, Austin and Sgroi, JJ., concur.