PEOPLE v. LEIGHTON R.

Ind. No. 1885/14, Appeal No. 1519, Case No. 2017-03013.

2024 NY Slip Op 00362

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. LEIGHTON R., Defendant-Appellant.

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

Decided January 25, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Twyla Carter , The Legal Aid Society, New York ( Clara Hammond-Oakley of counsel), for appellant.

Darcel D. Clark , District Attorney, Bronx ( Larry Glasser counsel), for respondent.

Before: Moulton, J.P., Kapnick, Mendez, Higgitt, O'Neill Levy, JJ.


Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Albert Lorenzo, J., at suppression motion; Robert Torres, J., at plea and sentence), rendered April 10, 2017, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him to three years' probation, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant's purported waiver of his right to appeal is invalid. The court did not elicit any on-the-record acknowledgments that defendant understood the nature of the rights...

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