People v. Mack , 37 N.Y.S.3d 903 ( 2016 )

People v Mack (2016 NY Slip Op 06231)

People v Mack

2016 NY Slip Op 06231

Decided on September 28, 2016

Appellate Division, Second Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on September 28, 2016 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
RANDALL T. ENG, P.J.
LEONARD B. AUSTIN
SHERI S. ROMAN
JOSEPH J. MALTESE
COLLEEN D. DUFFY, JJ.

2015-05138
(Ind. No. 5900/12)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent,

v

Lamar Mack, appellant.

Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, NY, for appellant.

Kenneth P. Thompson, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Victor Barall of counsel; Robert Ho on the memorandum), for respondent.

DECISION & ORDER

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Gubbay, J.), imposed September 15, 2014, upon his plea of guilty, on the ground that the sentence was excessive.

ORDERED that the sentence is affirmed.

The defendant's purported waiver of his right to appeal was invalid because, among other things, the Supreme Court's oral colloquy improperly conflated the right to appeal with the rights automatically forfeited by a guilty plea (see People v Flores, 139 AD3d 753, 753; People v Wells, 135 AD3d 976, 976).

Nevertheless, the sentence imposed was not excessive (see People v Suitte, 90 AD2d 80).

ENG, P.J., AUSTIN, ROMAN, MALTESE and DUFFY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court