People v James
2016 NY Slip Op 05046 [140 AD3d 592]
June 23, 2016
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 3, 2016


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Julian James, Appellant.

Seymour W. James, Jr., The Legal Aid Society, New York (Eve Kessler of counsel), for appellant.

Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Ryan P. Mansell of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (John S. Moore, J., at plea; Albert Lorenzo, J., at sentencing), rendered February 6, 2014 convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him to a term of 21/2 years, unanimously affirmed.

Although we do not find that defendant made a valid waiver of the right to appeal, we perceive no basis for reducing the sentence. Concur—Tom, J.P., Friedman, Richter, Kapnick and Gesmer, JJ.