People v Fortner
2022 NY Slip Op 01926 [203 AD3d 1690]
March 18, 2022
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 4, 2022


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Darryl Fortner, Appellant. (Appeal No. 1.)

Frank H. Hiscock Legal Aid Society, Syracuse (Piotr Banasiak of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

William J. Fitzpatrick, District Attorney, Syracuse (Bradley W. Oastler of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from a resentence of the Onondaga County Court (Matthew J. Doran, J.), rendered March 23, 2021. Defendant was resentenced upon a conviction of robbery in the first degree and menacing in the second degree.

It is hereby ordered that the resentence so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.

Memorandum: In appeal No. 1, defendant appeals from a resentence on his conviction, upon his plea of guilty, of robbery in the first degree (Penal Law § 160.15 [4]) and menacing in the second degree (§ 120.14 [1]). In appeal No. 2, defendant appeals from a resentence on his conviction, upon his plea of guilty in the same plea proceeding, of attempted robbery in the first degree (§§ 110.00, 160.15 [4]). Although defendant validly waived his right to appeal at the plea proceeding (see generally People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 256 [2006]), that waiver does not preclude him from challenging the sentences imposed upon resentencing (see People v Allen, 97 AD3d 1164, 1164 [4th Dept 2012], lv denied 19 NY3d 994 [2012]; People v Gray, 32 AD3d 1052, 1053 [3d Dept 2006], lv denied 7 NY3d 902 [2006]; see also People v Jirdon, 159 AD3d 1518, 1519 [4th Dept 2018]). We nevertheless conclude in each appeal that the resentence is not unduly harsh or severe. Present—Smith, J.P., Centra, Peradotto, Lindley and Winslow, JJ.