

People v Crouse (2019 NY Slip Op 01894)





People v Crouse


2019 NY Slip Op 01894


Decided on March 15, 2019


Appellate Division, Fourth Department


Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.


This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.



Decided on March 15, 2019
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department

PRESENT: CARNI, J.P., LINDLEY, NEMOYER, CURRAN, AND TROUTMAN, JJ.


74 KA 16-01787

[*1]THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, RESPONDENT,
vGERALD CROUSE, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT. 


THE LEGAL AID BUREAU OF BUFFALO, INC., BUFFALO (RICHARD L. SULLIVAN OF COUNSEL), FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLANT. 
JOHN J. FLYNN, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, BUFFALO (DANIEL J. PUNCH OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT. 

	Appeal from a judgment of the Erie County Court (David W. Foley, A.J.), rendered September 14, 2016. The judgment convicted defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of attempted burglary in the second degree (two counts). 
It is hereby ORDERED that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon his plea of guilty of two counts of attempted burglary in the second degree (Penal Law §§ 110.00, 140.25 [2]). Contrary to defendant's contention, "  the waiver of the right to appeal was not rendered invalid based on [County C]ourt's failure to require defendant to articulate the waiver in his own words' " (People v Scott, 144 AD3d 1597, 1597 [4th Dept 2016], lv denied 28 NY3d 1150 [2017]). Defendant's valid waiver of the right to appeal forecloses his challenge to the severity of the sentence (see People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 255 [2006]).
Entered: March 15, 2019
Mark W. Bennett
Clerk of the Court


