People v Plantiko
2018 NY Slip Op 05415 [163 AD3d 1471]
July 25, 2018
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 29, 2018


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Robert W. Plantiko, Also Known as Robert W. Plantiko, Jr., Appellant.

The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, Inc., Buffalo (Timothy P. Murphy of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Lawrence Friedman, District Attorney, Batavia (Shirley A. Gorman of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from a judgment of the Genesee County Court (Robert C. Noonan, J.), rendered March 4, 2015. 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: On appeal 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]), defendant contends that his waiver of the right to appeal is unenforceable and that his sentence is unduly harsh and severe. Even assuming, arguendo, that defendant's waiver of the right to appeal was not knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently entered, we perceive no basis in the record to exercise our power to modify the sentence as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice (see CPL 470.15 [6] [b]). We note that defendant was sentenced as a second felony offender convicted of a class D nonviolent felony, and his sentence of 2 to 4 years of incarceration is the minimum sentence he could have received for such an offense (see Penal Law § 70.06 [3] [d]; [4] [b]). Present—Carni, J.P., Lindley, NeMoyer, Curran and Winslow, JJ.