People v Givens (2025 NY Slip Op 02274)
People v Givens
2025 NY Slip Op 02274 [237 AD3d 567]
April 17, 2025
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, June 4, 2025


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Brandon Givens, Appellant.

Jenay Nurse Guilford, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Emilia King-Musza of counsel), for appellant.

Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Elizabeth T. Schmidt of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Gregory Carro, J.), rendered November 20, 2023, unanimously affirmed.

Although we find that defendant did not make a valid waiver of the right to appeal, we perceive no basis for reducing the sentence. Concur—Manzanet-Daniels, J.P., Kennedy, González, Rosado, Michael, JJ.