| People v Lawrence |
| 2016 NY Slip Op 00402 [135 AD3d 1187] |
| January 21, 2016 |
| Appellate Division, Third Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Deon Lawrence, Appellant. |
Mark Diamond, Albany, for appellant.
Robert M. Carney, District Attorney, Schenectady (Peter H. Willis of counsel), for respondent.
Lahtinen, J.P. Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Schenectady County (Meyer, J.), rendered April 25, 2014, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fifth degree.
In 2013, after selling cocaine to two undercover police officers, defendant was
charged by indictment with one count each of criminal sale of a controlled substance in
the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree.
Pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement, defendant pleaded guilty to one count of
criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fifth degree in satisfaction of the
indictment, waived his right to appeal and was sentenced, as a second felony offender, to
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We affirm. Upon our review of the record, we find that defendant knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently waived his right to appeal, thereby precluding his challenges to his conviction and sentence (see People v Walton, 101 AD3d 1489, 1489-1490 [2012], lv denied 20 NY3d 1105 [2013]) and his claim that he was denied his statutory right to testify before the grand jury (see CPL 190.50 [5] [a]; People v Johnson, 97 AD3d 990, 991 [2012]). Defendant's argument that he was improperly sentenced as a prior felony offender, to the extent preserved, has been reviewed and found to be without merit (see People v Dixon, 118 AD3d 1188, 1189 [2014]).
[*2] Garry, Rose, Lynch and Devine, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.