People v Meza
2016 NY Slip Op 05278 [141 AD3d 1110]
July 1, 2016
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 31, 2016


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Alejandro J. Meza, Also Known as Cartel, Appellant.

Williams, Heinl, Moody & Buschman, P.C., Auburn (Ryan James Muldoon of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Jon E. Budelmann, District Attorney, Auburn (Brian T. Leeds of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from a judgment of the Cayuga County Court (Mark H. Fandrich, A.J.), rendered September 16, 2014. The judgment convicted defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree.

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.

Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon his plea of guilty of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (Penal Law § 265.02 [1]). Contrary to defendant's contention, the record establishes that he knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently waived the right to appeal (see generally People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 256 [2006]), and that valid waiver forecloses any challenge by defendant to the severity of the sentence (see id. at 255; see generally People v Lococo, 92 NY2d 825, 827 [1998]; People v Hidalgo, 91 NY2d 733, 737 [1998]). We note that the certificate of conviction incorrectly states that defendant was sentenced to an indeterminate term of 11/3 to 3 years, and it must therefore be corrected to reflect that he was actually sentenced to an indeterminate term of 1 to 3 years (see People v Saxton, 32 AD3d 1286, 1286-1287 [2006]). Present—Smith, J.P., Centra, Carni, Curran and Scudder, JJ.