People v Derryan J. |
2018 NY Slip Op 00254 [157 AD3d 540] |
January 16, 2018 |
Appellate Division, First Department |
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
The People of the State of New York,
Respondent, v Derryan J., Appellant. |
Seymour W. James, Jr., The Legal Aid Society, New York (Laura Boyd of counsel), for appellant.
Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Jeffrey A. Wojcik of counsel), for respondent.
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jill Konviser, J.), rendered January 6, 2015,
convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of robbery in the first degree, adjudicating him a
youthful offender, and sentencing him to a term of 1
The sentencing court's comments, read in context, establish that it properly and explicitly considered defendant's request for youthful offender treatment, and declined to extend such treatment to the burglary convictions (see People v Rudolph, 21 NY3d 497 [2013]). The sentencing court, which had all the necessary information before it, expressly decided to grant YO treatment for defendant's robbery conviction, but deny it as to his burglary convictions, for reasons independent of any plea agreement.
Defendant made a valid waiver of his right to appeal from the burglary convictions (see People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 257 [2006]). The court adequately explained that the right to appeal was separate from the trial rights forfeited upon a guilty plea. To the extent there was any ambiguity in the court's explanation, the written waiver ensured that defendant understood that in addition to the rights he was giving up by pleading guilty, he was separately giving up his right to appeal as a bargained-for condition of the plea (see People v Bryant, 28 NY3d 1094 [2016]).
Although waiver of the right to appeal does not foreclose review of a court's failure to comply with the requirements of Rudolph, a "valid waiver of the right to appeal forecloses appellate review of a sentencing court's discretionary decision to deny youthful offender status" (People v Pacherille, 25 NY3d 1021, 1024 [2015]). As an alternative holding, we find that the court providently exercised its discretion in denying YO treatment. Concur—Friedman, J.P., Mazzarelli, Kapnick, Webber and Moulton, JJ.