Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Hanophy, J.), imposed August 17, 2010, on the ground that the sentence was excessive.
Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.
"When a trial court characterizes an appeal as one of the many rights automatically extinguished upon entry of a guilty plea," a waiver of the right to appeal is invalid (People v Lopez,
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