People v Bolton
2025 NY Slip Op 01103 [235 AD3d 995]
February 26, 2025
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, April 2, 2025


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Robert J. Bolton, Appellant.

Christopher E. Gurda, Middletown, NY, for appellant.

David M. Hoovler, District Attorney, Goshen, NY (Andrew R. Kass of counsel), for respondent.

Appeals by the defendant from three judgments of the County Court, Orange County (William L. DeProspo, J.), all rendered December 16, 2021, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree under indictment No. 158/20, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree under indictment No. 246/20, and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree under indictment No. 277/20, upon his pleas of guilty, and imposing sentences.

Ordered that the judgments are affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant's contention, the record demonstrates that he knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently waived his right to appeal (see People v Victor, 235 AD3d 783 [2025]; People v Young, 225 AD3d 903 [2024]; People v Sutton, 184 AD3d 236, 245 [2020]; see also People v Williams, 227 AD3d 480, 481 [2024]). The defendant's valid waiver of his right to appeal precludes appellate review of his contention that the sentences imposed were excessive (see People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 256 [2006]). Barros, J.P., Miller, Dowling and Ventura, JJ., concur.