PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

2013-03964

131 A.D.3d 627 (2015)

14 N.Y.S.3d 909

2015 NY Slip Op 06607

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. TERENCE WILLIAMS, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided August 19, 2015.


Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.

A defendant who has validly waived the right to appeal cannot invoke this Court's interest of justice jurisdiction to obtain a reduced sentence (see People v Lopez, 6 N.Y.3d 248, 255 [2006]). Here, however, this Court is not precluded from exercising its interest of justice jurisdiction because the defendant's purported waiver of his right to appeal was invalid. The record fails to demonstrate...

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